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…
Continue reading → The conservation of a 18th-century heraldic drawing.
From April 15-17th April, Radha Penday and I gave a three-day intensive course on Islamic paper, theory and practice, at the Institut National du Patrimoine,…
Continue reading → Three-day course on Islamic Paper: history, technology, and practice.
Paper conservation often leads to the discovery of fascinating objects. Take this rather enigmatic depiction on this folio from the Wereldmuseum in Leiden (inventory number…
Continue reading → The enigmatic representation of an ascetic mocking a dandy.
The manuscript 441 from the Oriental Library of Saint Joseph’s University in Beirut was entrusted to the Beit Gazo center for conservation last October. This book is…
Unlike the Mughal miniatures which were framed with sumptuous borders made of gold-flecked, painted, gilded and marbled paper, the borders of the Pahari works were…
Continue reading → The art of borders in Pahari paintings: description and conservation
Last week, I gave a two-day course on paper technology in Arab lands to the conservation team of the Franciscan Archives in Malta.The course has…
Continue reading → Course on paper history and technology in the Western Islamic lands
A few years ago I had to conserve this badly damaged Gil Blas Almanac from 1881. The word Almanac was borrowed from medieval Latin almanac…
Continue reading → Street vendors and book peddlers: the conservation of an almanac from 1881
Next Tuesday, I will give an online lecture on my project to research and conserve the Pahari drawing and painting collection of the Museum Volkenkunde.…
Willem Floor & Amelie Couvrat Desvergnes, Mage Publishers, 2022. The black and white hardcopy is available here The kindle full colour version is available on…
Continue reading → Book release: History of Paper in Iran, 1501–1925.
For each drawing and painting, I make a float mount using a sheet of Japanese paper in which a window is cut to allow viewing…
Continue reading → Mounting a double-sided folio in hyperlapse
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