To buy for college...

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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