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Reflections from a PhD defence

11/8/2015

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Friday 6th November - celebratory, slightly formal, in an auditorium filled with friends, family, colleagues, peers, conservations students, staff from the Institution for Care of Cultural Heritage (Institution för Kulturvård), it was time for Johanna Nilsson to defend her thesis after 10 years of part time research (equivalent to 4 years full time). This post is based on the notes that I took during the defence.

The thesis is based on 5 papers published between 2005 an 2015. You can access the complete thesis at this link. Starting by investigating the most common types of conservation treatment used on objects in the LSH collection, and elsewhere, to then empirically measuring the effect of those treatments on aged silk, Johanna sought to answer the question what effect is the conservation treatment I am carry out having on the costume that is being conserved?  Evaluating the strength of aged silk after conservation required a way to age silk in such a way that it acquired properties equivalent to those of silk costumes from the 1600s, and methods to measure those properties. Further the aesthetic appearance of the conservation was assessed, the time to carry out the different types of treatment and the reason for carrying out conservation treatments.

Johanna's opponent was Joy Boutrop who started by praising the co-operation with scientists on other disciplines.  It is not always easy to communicate and convince others that what you think is interesting and exciting will be interesting for them, but the co-operation is necessary to get access to specialist testing equipment and specialised knowledge.  Joy also praised Livrustkammaren, Johanna's employer, for the support they have given her during the research.  She also felt it was important that Johanna has managed to publish her articles, in this way the knowledge is shared not just sitting on the shelves in the university.  A limitation in the research was pointed out - the artificially aged textiles are compared to aged silk from 1617 and 1654 - we don't  know if the ageing cycles evaluated would give silks comparable to other periods.  Joy was impressed that Johanna had investigated the strength of samples after removing the conservation treatment in order to measure how the treatment has weakened the sample.  She was not aware of anybody else who has  measured this.

In discussions between the opponent and respondent Joy questioned Johanna's choice of method to achieve accelerated wear.  Washing seemed too harsh, and adds superfluous humidity.  Joy suggested the accelerator test method, which combines stretching, bending and rubbing (see this article for more information about abrasion testing of textiles).  Johanna was able to answer that she had tried this method but it had no effect on the samples.

Joy also asked why Johanna had not compared damaged but not conserved fabric with conserved after wear. Further the use of tensile test results compared to amino acid markers (see Johanna's paper III) as a method to evaluate the level of degradation of the silk fabric linked to available sample size was discussed.  What can you cut from the object to carry out an evaluation?  Where to take the sample?  Is fabric from the seam allowance representative? If you take a thread from the damaged area is it too damaged?  And should you take a sample at all?  How much information will it give?  What implication is there for the authenticity of the object? Being able to communicate a level of damage, between disciplines is enabled but is it justified?

How much does the handling involved in carrying out conservation treatment affect the costume?  Is it better to open the seams or to insert a supporting fabric through the damage?  Does opening the seams remove evidence?

​Which is better remedial or passive conservation?  Does passive conservation give the viewer the feeling that nobody cares about this object?  

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NKF arbetsgrupp 

6/8/2015

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ENKÄT NKF-S

Till medlemmar som arbetar med föremål som berör Kulturmiljölagen kap 3 och 4, t.ex. objekt från Svenska kyrkan

 
Vid NKFs årsmöte 2014 gjordes ett upprop om att bilda en arbetsgrupp bestående av konservatorer som arbetar med konservering som lyder under kulturmiljölagen kap. 3 och 4.

Anledningen var att uppmärksamma de komplikationer som ibland uppstår mellan utförare (konservatorer), beställare och ansvarig myndighet Länsstyrelserna. Exempel på frågor är hur kulturmiljölagen tolkas och används i praktiken samt hur väl ”antikvarisk medverkan” fungerar.

Kulturmiljölagen är nu under omarbetning och inför detta arbete känns det viktigt att NKF som intresseorganisation bidrar med sina synpunkter. Ett första steg är nu att vi skickar ut en enkät bl.a. för att se hur stor del av NKFs medlemmar som arbetar med dessa uppdrag.

De frågor som vi i arbetsgruppen diskuterar just nu är:

  • Kulturmiljölagen- hur fungerar den i praktiken och vad skulle kunna förbättras samt bevakning av de ev. förändringar som föreslås.

  • Riktlinjer för åtgärdsprogram och antikvarisk medverkan - vad kan förbättras?

  • Bedöms ärenden lika på länsstyrelsen?

  • Utbildningsnivå/ certifiering - vilka utför konserveringsuppdrag idag?

  • Kyrkoantikvarisk ersättning  

  • Ev. ordna ett seminarium på sikt


     

Vi hoppas att du tar dig tid att besvara frågorna. Har du några synpunkter eller kortfattade reflexioner t.ex. egna erfarenheter som du vill delge oss, finns en rubrik sist i enkäten för övriga kommentarer.

 

Med vänlig hälsning Arbetsgruppen för Kvalitetssäkring av konservering.

Gruppen består av Kristin Fyrand, Ewa Björdell, Hélène Svahn Garreau, Annmarie Christensson, Susanna Oom, John Rothlind och Maria Höijer


Uppdaterade länk till enkät


 



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Help to promote the book

9/5/2013

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What an excellent idea - book promotion and advocacy of conservation at the same time.  Hope you all sign up to support Ingeborg!

Bokmässan i Göteborg 26 – 29 september 2013.

Vill du medverka?

SFT har beslutat att medverka på mässan för att få fart på försäljningen av vår bok, ”Textilkonservering, att vårda ett kulturarv”. Boken kommer att säljas i två olika montrar, Bohusläns Hembygdsförbund och Hemslöjden. I den senare har vi dessutom tre inbokade monterprogram under rubriken ”Praktiska råd för gamla textilier”, Textilkonservatorer delar med sig av sina kunskaper.

Följande tider är aktuella:

Torsdag 26/9 kl 13.30

Fredag 27/9 kl 14.30

Lördag 28/9 kl 12.30



Programtiden är 10-15 min

Efteråt kan man vara kvar för att sälja boken och informera besökare så länge det behövs.

Vad kan man göra i montern? Det är viktigt att vi visar något som är tydligt, det ska vara lätt att uppfatta och se i ett myller av människor. Tänk privatpersoner, hembygdsföreningar o.dyl.

Följande är aktuellt: torrengöring, slätning av linne, visa på olika förvaringar, rullar, bra material samt skadeinsekter/skadedjur.

Kan och vill du medverka?

Detta är en fantastisk möjlighet för oss som yrkesgrupp och dig som konservator att visa att vi finns och att vi har massor med kunskap som vi vill och kan förmedla.

Kontakta Ingeborg Skaar senast den 16 september så får du veta mer. ingeborg.skaar@telia.com

0702 291156, 0512-12395

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Wikipedia - förslag till innehåll om SFT?

6/12/2013

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SFT finns på wikipedia, med en länk till den här websida.  Jag har varit inne och lagt till en mening om den nya boken.  Men annars är det väldigt kort fattat. Jag efterlyser någon, eller några som vill skriva lite mer (på bra svenska och inte min svengelska .......  det är bara att klicka på redigerings knappen i wikipedia, eller skicka texten till mig.


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Conservation advocacy, NKF-s course in October

6/10/2013

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Last Friday, June 7th, I was in Copenhagen at Statens Museum for Konst, to speak to Merete Sanderhof about how they are using their digitised collections, as research for my Masters dissertation.  She was kind enough to get me a ticket to their current exhibition Flowers and Worldviews which includes pages from the Gottofor Codex. (Interestingly they have removed the pages from two of the four books to frame and display them - but that maybe the topic of a different post about ethics).  The exhibition also features a small conservators studio (see photo). The same space included a table with headphones and a video of the conservator at work. Times when the conservator would be working were clearly posted, and visitors were invited to send questions by email or twitter.  Why my sudden interest in advocacy?  I am currently also part of the project team that is planning the NKF-S course 17-18 October: Media and Politics, the conservator as opinion builder. Click on the link to find out more information, register to come and join us. One of the workshop leaders is Amy Drago from the British Museum who will talk about her experience of conservation in front of the public.  There will also be workshops on rhetoric, social media tools, lobbying, answering journalists questions and much more.
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Conservation Studio as part of the exhibition, SMK Copenhagen, photograph by Anna Stow Jun 2013
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New blog page on SFTs website

5/6/2013

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Hej på er alla!

Jag tänkte utbreder våran websida och lägga till en blog.  Har med lite motivation och funderingar kring detta:

1. The blog will be open to all SFT members.  If you want to post regularly contact me, or if you prefer send your input and I can post it.

2. The blog is intended as a compliment to, not a replacement for SFT Nytt. 

3. The blog will support advocacy for the profession, if somebody searched for konservator/konservering they have a higher chance of finding SFT if we have more content.

4. The blog will be a good source to refer to when somebody asks "what does a conservator do?"

5. Content from the blog can be linked to other websites/facebook/twitter to further promote the profession.

6. The blog can be another place to promote the book.

7. The blog can become a place to share knowledge and experience

Ideas for blog entries:

Placements and internships:

I already have a few people lined up to blog - Rebecka Karlsdotter will be at  the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian  for 10 weeks in the summer on an internship (grattis Rebecka!) and will post from there, Anna Javer has two students on placement in the autumn and they will also post.  If you have students working with you, and it is OK with your employer, put them in touch with me and they can post too. This helps them to document their experiences and have something to show to future employers.

Conferences and courses:

Promote one you are hosting, report on one afterwards

Do you already have a blog? Can we link to it?

Have a website but no blog? Use the SFT blog and link back to it.

Entries can be short and simply a recommendation of something to read somewhere else, or a longer discussion of why you chose a particular treatment, interview a colleague, write a short how to guide, review a book, answer a blog post on another website, review something on Youtube, recommend an exhibition, recommend a supplier etc, etc.

Examples of conservation blogs:

http://www.vam.ac.uk/page/c/conservation/

http://www.museumtextiles.com/mts-blog.html

http://conservation100.hrp.org.uk/

Har du fler förslag , vill du vara med och bloggar kontakta mig! 

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    There will be number of SFT members and guest editors posting here.  See the first post for ideas and hopes for the blog

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