To buy for college...

[annwfyn]

Material and Equipment List

• General cleaning cloth/sponge @ 50p


• Dust mask @ £2.35


• 1 pair cotton gloves @ 40p (I might still have my archivist gloves somewhere)


• Natural sponge @ £1.20 (sm) £5.40 (lg)


• 12" metal ruler either/or @£2.75


• 24" metal ruler @ £4.35


• 1 x Magnifying glass either/or @ £14.65 Stanley Gibbons


• Linen tester @ £3.60


• 1 x 6" Pointed bonefolder @ £2.40


• 1 x 8" Rounded bonefolder @ £3.00


• 1 Shoe knife @ £5.20


• 1 x small scissors @ £1.00


• 1 x scalpel handle, No. 3 @ £1.95


• 1 x scalpel handle, No. 4 @ £1.95


• Scalpel blades - all sizes @ @45p five pack


• 1 x ruling pen @ £4.10


• 1 x palette knife @ £3.00


• 1 x green cutting mat @ £3.30 (A4) £6.00 (A3) £13.00 (A2)

Brushes:

• Dusting - Chinese finger brushes


• Pasting and Sizing - Japanese


• Without metal parts


• Pasting and where solvent used @ £1.30 (Nylon 0) £1.70 (Nylon 1) £7.15 (Nylon 1")


• Retouching, small table @ £1.40 (00) £1.55 (0) £1.70 (1)

All the above can be bought from the College Shop.

Small weights (used plastic 35 mm film containers filled with 2 p pieces)
Small glass squares (between 5cm2 and 10cm2 with round edges)
Dissecting needles
1 x small bucket Tiranti
Plastic beakers Tiranti
1 x plastic spray container Muji
White apron or overall Alexandra Work Wear plc (ordered via e bay)
Tea towel
Tool box Muji, B&Q or Woolworths
1 x small tape measure B&Q
1 x tweezers (stainless steel without 'teeth' - either watchmakers or entymological size 2 or 5)

Muji - Japanese minimalist store
Tiranti - sculptors tools and materials - 27 Warren St, W1
Stanley Gibbons - postage stamp dealers - WC2

Reading List

Caple, Chris, Conservation Skills: Judgement, Method and Decision Making, Routledge, 2000
Gascoigne, B, How to Identify Prints, Thames and Hudson, 1986
Gordon, J The New Science of Strong Materials Penguin, 1976
Harley, R, Artist's Pigments: cc 1600-1835 Butterworths, 1982
Horie, C Materials For Conservation Butterworths, 1987
Hunter, D Papermaking: the history of an ancient craft Dover Paperbacks, 1978
Lewis, Rob & Evans, Wynne Chemistry, 2nd Edition Palgrave Foundations, 2001
Roberts, J.C The Chemistry of Paper Royal Society of Chemistry, 1996
Science for Conservators: An Introduction to Materials (Vol 1); Cleaning (Vol 2); Adhesives and Coatings (Vol 3) Routledge, 1983
Thompson, G, The Museum Environment: Second Edition Butterworths, 1986

Internet: http://palimpest.stanford.edu/index

Comments

[twicedead.livejournal.com]

Don't forget you'll also need.... stationery!

*loves stationery*

[adze.livejournal.com]

Everyone loves stationery...

[portilis.livejournal.com]

What do you need stationery for?

I don't think I've actually used a pen or pencil for anything uni-related in the last two years (since I started my current course).

Laptops and dictophones. It's called progress don't you know :)

[twicedead.livejournal.com]

You sick, sick freak. Even if you don't use them, you still need fresh clean paper, brightly coloured folders, multicoloured pens and funky staplers. It's the whole reason to study.

Also, I hate typing from dictaphones, it's too literal and I learn less. When I write down what a lecture contains I am paraphrasing and interpreting which engages my brain. When I compile those written notes into an electronic document, I'm paraphrasing, re-organising and interpreting again, which locks the material into my head.

I barely need to study at the end of the year if I do this. It engages lots of brain processes and reinforces memory... and makes succinct but useful notes.

[portilis.livejournal.com]

I type during the lectures myself - I have friends who have dictaphones, but personally don't use them. Admittedly it helps that I'm a true touch-typist so don't have any issue keeping up.

[anonymous-james.livejournal.com]

Oh that kind of conservation. *feels silly*

[ksirafai.livejournal.com]

...Enquiring minds need to know...

What on earth's a bonefolder? Something that folds bones? A folder to contain bones? Something that folds and happens to be made of bone? A folder made of bone?

Erm. My inspiration fails. But the images are fun. :P

[twicedead.livejournal.com]

http://www.handyhippo.co.uk/card_making_product/882

A device for scoring paper to make precise folds.

[ksirafai.livejournal.com]

So 'something that folds and happens to be made out of bone' is reasonably close.

That's quite neat. I hope it's some kind of useful. :)