The Challenge Answering a petition by Peter Verheyen, of the BookArts group, one of my projects this summer was to showcase the versatility of the material of fish skin, through experimental research. The BookArts Bind-O-Rama project was to craft fish parchment or fish leather and make something out of it. By doing this project, it…Continue Reading Experimental Archaeology: Fish Leather
I came from a background of archaeology, and there’s a saying that an archaeologist creates their own tool-kit, borrowing tools designed for other fields. Conservation and Preservation tools are essentially the same. As the trade is still developing, there are so few tools designed for our work specifically that we often amass a hodgepodge of…Continue Reading 10 Unusual Tools on our Preservation Workbench
Image from the American Institute for Conservation website In this, our first post, we’re going to discuss two common questions about our field. What’s the difference between Preservation, Conservation, and Restoration when it relates to material culture and heritage? Are Conservators and Conservationists the same? Hopefully, by the end of this post, we’ll have cleared…Continue Reading Preservation, Conservation, or Restoration?