Earlier this month I attended a days workshop on behalf of Lanarkshire Household Historical past Society. This was held by Lanarkshire Heritage Discussion board when Helen Creasy of the Scottish Conservation Studio offering a workshop on the Care of Paper & Pictures.
Helen specialises within the care & conservation of Pictures, Prints, Drawings, Watercolours, Maps/Plans & Archive Supplies so this presentation was proper up my avenue.
Attendees have been requested to carry with them any gadgets from their very own assortment that we felt could also be in have to some TLC. I took alongside my Nice Grandmothers Beginning Certificates from 1876, this had a bit that was completely indifferent, I additionally took a few outdated images from the Nineteen Twenties that had tears in them.
Entrance & Rear of Certificates – photos courtesy of Helen Creasy
The day began with Helen getting us to consider a number of the threats to Paper & Photographic collections & how these may greatest be packed for storage.
We then went on to take a look at suppliers of kit akin to acid free folders, sleeves & bins.
The following session mentioned the storage of glass negatives, maps & plans in addition to books.
Throughout all these classes Helen gave some superb examples of how sure gadgets may very well be saved, confirmed us methods to determine threats akin to warmth, chilly, damp or pests in addition to a couple of tips about methods to wash marks from gadgets & when it is likely to be greatest to retailer gadgets flat or not. We have been additionally supplied with an data pack detailing what was lined over the course of the day.
We have been then break up into teams whereby quite a lot of gadgets have been positioned on the desk for us to guage, these included a number of the gadgets we had all introduced alongside. Throughout this session we ascertained what the merchandise was created from, any harm & how this may need been induced. We then mentioned if it was match to be dealt with, how it might greatest be saved, if there have been considerations about displaying the merchandise & if the merchandise was in want of restore by a conservator.
The general session was very relaxed however on the similar offered numerous data & help. I actually felt that I got here away considering not solely about how I used to be going to deal with my very own Household Assortment however how this may very well be rolled out to Lanarkshire Household Historical past Society & its members!
Since attending the workshop, I’ve ordered up a Preservation Tools Catalogue as this can be a nice useful resource in making you consider how greatest to retailer an merchandise & the number of choices obtainable. I’ve additionally pulled out a a few of my very own documentation with a view to scanning this earlier than ordering up some storage options. I’ve quite a lot of gadgets which might be folded in an outdated steel cashbox that belonged to my Nice Grandfather who died in 1935…it’s time for them to be organised accurately!
Going by way of my very own assortment I can see gadgets with put on & tear which were caught down with cellotape & even gummed sections from stamp sheets. If this workshop has taught me something then it’s that repairs are higher left to the professionals! I sit up for visiting The Scottish Conservation Studio within the coming months to see a number of the superb work that they do!
The ultimate level is that in the course of the workshop Helen kindly mentioned that she want to restore my Nice Grandmothers Beginning Certificates…I believe she may see how a lot this stuff meant to me!
I obtained it again within the put up final week & may have cried! You may hardly see the restore & total the doc seems to be so a lot better! Now positioned in an Acid Free Folder my hope it that it’ll final one other 147 years & past. I might be taking it together with the earlier than {photograph} to any occasions organized by way of the Society as it’s a nice instance of why having this stuff repaired professionally moderately than making an attempt to deal with them your self is so price it!
Entrance & Rear of Certificates after remedy – photos courtesy of Helen Creasy
Thanks once more to Helen Creasy of the Scottish Conservation Studio for taking the time to restore this treasured merchandise for me!
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