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Conservation of the leather upholstery from a 1908 Argyll motor car
Posted: February 9, 2025Original leather upholstery from a 1908 Argyll motorcar conserved by the LCC team. The car is owned by a private client who wanted to use the car for occasional journeys. -
WW1 Leather Coin Purse
Posted: February 9, 2025Conservation of a vegetable-tanned leather coin purse that holds a remarkable story, evidenced by it's damage. -
H.M.S Victory Fore Top-sail
Posted: December 10, 2024Surface cleaning and documentation of the fore top-sail from H.M.S Victory took place over a two week period in November 2024. Weighing half a ton and measuring 24 by 16 meters, the complexities of the project were in the moving and handling of such a large textile. -
Irish dance dress. The Repair Shop. BBC TV
Posted: November 10, 2024Mother and daughter Mona Roddy and Dearbhla Lennon from Dundalk in Ireland, have a child's Irish dancing dress that Dearbhla wore when she was two years old. It has the traditional lace collar and cuffs which had originally been made for mum Mona when she was a child learning to dance in the 1950s. -
Conservation of curtains . Private property.
Posted: October 20, 2024The curtains were well used and continued to be used on a daily basis. Over time they had suffered damage from use and light, which included splits and fraying of the velvet. -
Willow Road. National Trust property.
Posted: October 20, 2024Preparing the flat for open season. -
Women’s Institute banner.
Posted: October 20, 2024Green damask ground with hand stitched tree and swan in the centre, worked in cotton purla in a variety of embroidery stitches. Applique banner across the top and bottom edge made with a beige silk ground with hand stitched wording worked in satin stich reading – BUCKS WOMENS INSTITUTE. FOR HOME AND COUNTRY -
Danny La Rue dress. The Repair Shop BBC TV
Posted: October 19, 2024I worked on a dress for the Repair Shop BBC TV programme, that originally belonging to Danny La Rue, the first female impersonator to crossover into mainstream success. Danny wore this dress in a 1968 pantomime production of Sleeping Beauty among 14 other elaborate frocks! This was the longest running panto in history, going on until June. After Danny passed away, he gifted this dress to his friend Ceri Dupree. Ceri later wore this during a brief appearance in the TV drama Cilla, about Cilla Black, where he played the role of his dear friend and lifelong idol Danny La Rue. -
Installation of costume. Fitzwilliam Museum. Cambridge.
Posted: October 19, 2024Paris 1924. Building up mannequins and installation of three pieces of costume for the Paris 1924 exhibition. -
Innholders 19th Century ceremonial banner.
Posted: October 19, 2024As a freelance conservator, a colleague I undertook the conservation work on a large ceremonial banner, which was owned by the Worshipful Company of Innholders. The banner required conservation treatment, so that it could be hung in the Great Hall for a celebratory dinner, for the 500 year anniversary of the company.