From the working bench to the display case
The conservation of the interior model of the Museum of Islamic Art by I.M. Pei. From 2012 to 2016 I worked as a paper and…
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A 4-day training course on Islamic Paper given to the Quranic Manuscripts Initiative.
Last week, I had the opportunity to teach a four-day online course on Islamic paper (history, techniques and material analysis) as part of the teaching…
The conservation of a 18th-century heraldic drawing.
I recently conserved an eighteenth-century heraldic drawing from the KB-nationale Bibliotheek in The Hague showing the arms of Simon Iohan Steelant (left) and Cecilia Geertruij…
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Four-day short course at Yale University Library – Indo-Islamic papers: History, Techniques and Manufacture.
For the second time, Radha Pandey and I teamed up to present our theoretical and practical course on Indo-Islamic papers: History, techniques and Manufacture. We…
HAPPY NEW YEAR 2025
2024 was full of great professional achievements and conservation projects, but most importantly, 2024 was the year of reunions with old friends and colleagues and…
Ragamala Pictures for All senses
Last week I visited the exhibition Ragamala at the Rietberg Museum in Zurich. The exhibit features 50 stunning pieces, primarily from Rajasthan, offering visitors a…
The sensory materiality of South-Asian scrolls
The sensory materiality of manuscripts is a current trend, and South Asian scrolls fit within this trend. Scrolls illustrating the Bhagavad Purana and Devi Mahatmya,…
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Collection story: Pahari paintings-about bright colours, charcoal, and brushes of squirrel’s hair.
I am honoured to have contributed to Wereldverhalen, an online series of stories from the collections of the Wereldmuseums . The story is available here…
New publication: Victor Jacquemont or The Art of Writing in Nineteenth-Century India
in Hand Papermaking Vol. 39 number 1 Summer 2024 The issue can be purchased here Victor Jacquemont (1801–1832), a French botanist and explorer, was commissioned…
New publication: Sialkoti paper used by Pahari artists: raw materials and fibre analysis
with Agnieszka Helman‑Ważny (Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures(CSMC), Universität Hamburg) The article is in open access here Abstract: This study aims to characterise…
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