Dear
Colleague,
I would
like to inform you about our summer 2012 field school, the San Gemini
Preservation Studies Program, now in its 13th year, which is dedicated to the
preservation of cultural heritage and offers students the opportunity to study
and travel in Italy. In particular, I would like to inform you about a course we
offer on paper restoration:
Introduction
to Restoration of Paper in Books and Archival
Documents* (4 Units):
July 1st –
July 28th
This
course is an introduction to the restoration of paper in books and archival
documents. It gives students an understanding of the nature of paper as a
material, its history and the evolution of its use over time. The focus is on
paper as a support media for writing and printing. The course also familiarizes
students with the structure of books and their bindings.
Besides
studying the nature of the material, the course investigates the most common
agents of deterioration and the various approaches to restoration of paper.
Along with the theoretical lectures, the program includes hands-on workshops
comprising: exercises in traditional ways of paper making;
testing, analyzing and identifying types of paper, inks, paints,
pigments and printing techniques; disassembling books and their bindings, and;
exercises using different techniques of paper restoration.
The
course will include a field project restoring paper documents from the San
Gemini Historic Archives and a field trip to Fabriano. To learn more about this
course, please review the syllabus, which you can visit our WEBSITE.
If you
know any students, scholars, or others interested in this type of study, please
inform them about our program. We would appreciate it if you could list our
program on your organization's website as an available educational resource.
We have
a 2012 flyer that you may wish to post on your department notice board or
forward to interested parties. You can print this from our website, on our About
Us page. Please let us know if you have any problem printing and we can email
you the PDF.
Thank
you very much.
Cordially,
Polly Withers
Program
Coordinator
San
Gemini Preservation Studies Program
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