Dear
Colleague,
I would like to inform you about our summer 2013 field school, the San Gemini Preservation Studies Program, now in its 14th year, which is dedicated to the preservation of cultural heritage and offers students the opportunity to study and travel in Italy. Our deadline for applying is March 15, 2013.
In
particular, I would
like to inform you about two courses we offer: one on paper restoration and a
new program on book bindings restoration:
Introduction
to the Restoration of Book Bindings in
May
26th – June 22nd
This
course on the restoration and conservation of bindings and their structural
features aims to give an overview of the field of book conservation looking at
the book as a three-dimensional structure at the theoretical level as well as
with hands-on experience. The course will introduce students to the history of
book making, especially concentrating on production in the Western
culture.
In the
workshop students will have an opportunity to make four book facsimiles with
various historic bindings using traditional materials and techniques and learn
to analyze and document old books in terms of the structure, materials and state
of conservation. They will also perform light preventive conservation including
building various types of protective covers.
To
learn more about this course, please review the syllabus, which you can visit
our WEBSITE.
Introduction
to Restoration of Paper in Books and Archival
Documents:
July 7th –
August 3rd
This
course is an introduction to the restoration of paper in books, archival
material and 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, and
two-dimensional documents. 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, 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 2013 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,
Max Cardillo
Director
San
Gemini Preservation Studies Program
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