Author: thebookandpapergathering

What can heritage science do for you?

Decisions and Methods: Washing a 19th-Century Oversized Watercolour

My Favourite Tool: Heather Murphy’s soldering iron for leather drawing

On hair again: Conservation of a flocked papier-maché bulldog toy

The Gathering’s Cabinet of Curiosities: A historical recipe for ink restoration

Under Raking Light: Jonathan Ashley-Smith

Somer’s ‘Kalendarium’, Part 2: Arrangement of text and leaves

Somer’s ‘Kalendarium’, Part 1: folded tabs

My Favourite Tool: Rosy Lamera’s wooden nails