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Lifting and re-backing Roman mosaics from Leicester
Posted: November 17, 2020In 2017, during the excavation of the former Stibbe factory site in Leicester, sections of a large Roman mosaic pavement were unearthed. Skillington Workshop were commissioned to lift and re-back the mosaics ready for museum display. -
Lanercost Priory monuments
Posted: November 17, 2020The survey and then conservation of monuments at Lanercost Priory, Cumbria -
Whittlesey, Cambs.
Posted: November 17, 2020Conservation of seventeenth-century domestic wall paintings on an earthen support. -
Lerwick Town Hall, Shetland
Posted: November 12, 2020Project management, financial responsibility for, and practically working on: Removal, restoration, conservation, and bespoke isothermal glazing for the Town Hall, Lerwick, Shetland. One year, living and working on the Island; battling time constraints, extreme weather, aggressive misogyny, and complex conservation. -
Large etched Victorian front door
Posted: November 9, 2020A complex jigsaw of broken glass shards had to be re-assembled before a copy could be made of this beautiful Victorian plate glass door. -
Mounting and display of “The Exile Carpet” Two fragments depicting the Flight of Mary Magdalene.
Posted: November 8, 2020These are two carpet fragments that are called “The Exile Carpet” They were to be mounted for easy access of viewing as they had been stored in a box with tissue that had to be removed each time the fragments were viewed and this was causing damage and loss of fibres. The fragments could not come to the studio, because of their historical status and importance and they could not leave the country they were situated in, so we would have to mount them on site. The Exile Carpet fragments have been Carbon-14 dated twice, both in different laboratories, both gave a reasonable certitude that they were produced in the second half of the 2nd century, or the beginning of the 3rd. The carpet would have been oval in shape with a woven pile, would have originally measured approximately 48 inches from top to bottom and was possibly made as an altar. The design is divided into seven sections, within these sections it is thought that some of the figures depicted are of Jesus in the centre, with Mary Magdalene and her daughter Sarah, and is believed to be telling the story of the exile of Mary Magdalene. -
‘An important Victorian Room’ at Hospitalfield House
Posted: November 3, 2020Collections Care Audit of the collections at Hospitalfield House as part of a Museum Accreditation application (work in progress). -
The ’48 Star Flag’ – loan conditions at the Museum of Islay Life
Posted: November 3, 2020Assessment of the conditions for an item on loan from the Smithsonian Institution. -
HMS Unicorn – ‘The Most Original Ship in the World’
Posted: November 3, 2020Collection Care Audit of the HMS Unicorn in preparation for an AIM preventive conservation grant application. -
Forglen Hall (Jacob’s Dream)
Posted: November 2, 2020Full conservation of a unique window by Clayton & Bell, depicting "Jacob's Dream".