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Training
Posted: April 9, 2023Providing bespoke training programs for archaeologists, volunteers and museum staff. Both online and in-person. -
X-ray Projects
Posted: April 9, 2023Drakon undertakes many x-ray projects for conservation and archive. -
Marran grass panels: Wem
Posted: April 9, 2023Shortlisted for the 2023 Museum + Heritage Awards (Restoration or Conservtion project of the year) The project achieved specialist conservation of fifteen loom-woven marram grass wall panels located in a small Victorian cemetery chapel in the market town of Wem in North Shropshire. -
Epping War Memorial
Posted: March 29, 2023Cleaning and retouching of the Epping war memorial. -
Conservation clean of the Ledger slabs and wall memorials, ST JOHN THE BAPTIST CHURCH, ROYSTON.
Posted: March 29, 2023A fire broke out at St John the Baptist church in Royston during Advent in 2018, Adamson Conservation was tasked with cleaning all sculpture and memorials within the church. -
Embroidered covers from a Georgian sofa
Posted: February 15, 2023The embroidered covers from a late 18th century sofa, owned by a private collector, were cleaned, strengthened and reapplied to the sofa frame for minimal use in a private home -
Cope from Church of St James the Great, Cranham
Posted: February 9, 2023The Church of St. James the Great, Cranham, dates from the 12th century. It was restored in large part in the 1890s and it is from this era that many of its vestments appear to date. One of the most striking vestments is a cream-coloured cope, which incorporates elements from two copes: the hood and the orphrey, while they blend well together when viewed from a distance, show marked differences in thickness of threads, colour palette and style of underdrawing. -
International Rugby cap awarded to Mark Jones in 1987 playing for Wales against Scotland
Posted: January 22, 2023A much-prized international rugby cap had suffered damage in storage and needed conservation treatment before being framed and glazed for display -
Napoleonic era rag doll
Posted: January 22, 2023A soldier rag doll, found behind a cupboard in the old vicarage, Claverly, Shropshire. The doll wears the uniform of a British soldier from the era of the Peninsula Wars, 1807-1814. It was donated to Shropshire Museums Service by Claverly Memories Local History Society with a view to its being conserved, and displayed in Shrewsbury Museum. -
Flag made by Belgian refugees welcomed by Hereford in 1914
Posted: January 19, 2023A double-faced flag, showing the Union flag backed by the Belgian flag, was presented to the Mayor of Hereford in 1915 in recognition of the City's welcoming of Belgian refugees to Hereford on the outbreak of World War I in 1914. The flag, made from dress-weight silk fabrics by the Belgian refugees, was displayed in the council chamber of Hereford Town Hall, initially on open display, latterly in a glazed frame. As the flag's centenary approached, concerns for its long-term preservation were raised...