WE HAVE NEWS! Who remembers the #ConservationTogetherAtHome webinar series?🙋🏽 Following the latest lockdowns, the Book&Paper Group has been cooking something up to bring us all together once again 🧑🏻‍🍳 We’ve organised a series of Social Media Exhibitions! #IconEx21 ⬇️

We know that owners of historic objects and heirlooms care deeply about their possessions. For #NationalMaintenanceWeek, check out our ‘Caring for your collection’ conservation guides - they are full of advice on the care and conservation of objects: https://t.co/s0aUDqUtzl

From my view point there is a lot of cooperation and conservators are generally very generous in sharing their time and experience. One of the criteria for professional accreditation is to recognise the limits of your knowledge and skills and when to bring in others expertise...

Thank you Kristine!

It will be online! A great event to look forward in 2021. It’ll help go through yet another lockdown... https://t.co/He1fDC0pCe @IconBook_Paper #IconBPG2021

« Sew it rather than paste it », @ritaudina great presentation on the balance of flexibility and strength in book conservation. #europeanresearchcentreforbook #2020conference

Communication as a tool to engage with the public to raise awareness on conservation strategy. The « best » treatment for a book of hours, a very interesting presentation from Sarah Askey from Turnbull Library.

Bravo @ACampagnolo, @AMartinBinding and co-authors for a superb issue of @IADA_info journal, a tribute to Christopher Clarkson. https://t.co/1A3QV6kXyl

The "Endangered Heritage: Emergency Evacuation of Heritage Collections" handbook is now available for free download in 10 languages! Download it here https://t.co/1HITM1u8fT A huge thank you to all of those who have helped us make this resource accessible to a wider audience 🙏

We have refreshed and expanded the Coronavirus guidance hub on the Icon website. It now has sections on policy, CPD, collections care, historic buildings, and business support. If there's anything else you need please ask us!

L is for Linen braids: often used in book conservation due to their strength & flexibility. Here moulded over, and sewn to weakened sewing supports, before being used to reattach the boards of the binding (Bodleian Libraries, MS. Canon. Liturg. 172). #ABCbodcons #bookconservation

K is for Kettle stitch - the change-over station where a sewing thread passes from one quire to another (seen at left here). #ABCbodcons (University of Oxford, Bodleian Libraries, MS. Bodl. 271) #ABCbodcons #bookconservation #bookguts

J is for Japanese paper, a mainstay of the book & paper conservator’s day-to-day work. Two of our conservators were lucky enough to visit a paper studio in Ogawa in 2018 and witness hand paper-making in action. #ABCbodcons #handpapermaking #ogawawashi #japanesepaper

Carl Heron will give a snapshot of 100 years of scientific research @britishmuseum in our next #ConservationTogetherAtHome Heritage Science webinar on Wednesday 20th May at 4pm Book your free place here: https://t.co/NNebeklrfX

New episode! 🥼 This time we pop on our lab coats and UV goggles and look at the bewildering but beautiful world of analysis -- y'know, FOR SCIENCE! 🔬 Tune in here: https://t.co/Z6sLDkOsBc #conservation #podcasts #conservators #science

I is for Ink. Iron gall inks can cause many issues but here it is a treat. Dated Christmas Day 1683 & still remarkably fresh, sparkling drying sand is trapped in the ink of a letter sent to the antiquarian Anthony Wood (Bodleian Libraries, MS. Wood F. 44, for. 199r). #ABCbodcons

H is for Horn label. Thin horn has been used to protect the title label added to this manuscript when it was rebound in red velvet for Henry VIII. (University of Oxford, Bodleian Libraries, MS. Auct. D. 1. 15). #ABCbodcons #Bookconservation #divorcedbeheadedskilfullyconserved

Because lockdown is a slog, & it’s Wednesday, & we miss our collections, we’re giving you an extra ‘G’ for our #ABCbodcons : GOLD! A chance to show this absolute beauty, an early 16th c Kulliyyāt of Saʿdī, from Shiraz. (University of Oxford, Bodleian Libraries, MS. Fraser 73)

G is for Gels! Used to create bespoke, controllable treatments, our studio uses gels on a daily basis. 1: agarose + enzymes on mock-ups to remove (dyed) adhesive residues 2: gellan gum used to separate stuck pages 3: agarose pellets testing the pH of a print #ABCbodcons

27th of May 16:00 Dr Josep Grau-Bové, lecturer in the Institute for Sustainable Heritage, UCL, will speak at the ICON "Together at Home" seminar series, on the topic "Using online and open apps for preventive conservation". @UCL_ISH @Conservators_uk https://t.co/hfjuXRg9VG