Latest posts tagged with #CULConservation on Bluesky
The brilliant Future Nostalgia project @theul.bsky.social headed by our excellent colleague Leontien Talboom!
Digital and analogue preservation intertwined. It’s been great working with her in #CULconservation 💾 #DigitalHumanities
Manuscripts, carefully wrapped in fabric. They have labels marked 'Loan Material'.
Members of the Cambridge University Library Conservation team work on the deinstall of the Curious Cures exhibition.
A member of the Cambridge University Library Conservation team work on the deinstall of the Curious Cures exhibition.
A member of the Cambridge University Library Conservation team work on the deinstall of the Curious Cures exhibition.
Thank you to our Conservation team, who have been working on the de-install of the #CuriousCures exhibition – ensuring that the books and manuscripts, from our own collections and beyond, are cared for with great skill and attention to detail
#CULConservation #Conservation
Our Conservation team has created a pigment for research using woad grown in their Dye Garden at the UL. 🌱
This video explains the process! 🧪
#DyeGarden #PracticeBasedResearch #Woad #CULConservation #CambridgeUniversityLibraries #OrganicPigment #NaturalColourants
Our Conservation team enjoyed hosting a visit from Moriki Papers last week! We shared how we use Japanese paper in our studio and learned about the art of Japanese papermaking.
#CULConservation #BookConservation #PaperConservation #JapanesePaper #PaperRepair #Papermaking
Day to day collaboration between #CULconservation and colleagues in #CHIL @theul.bsky.social 📚 📷
Conserved c.20 years ago, and holding up pretty well 📚🧿
@theul.bsky.social Add. 1116, fragments of a Qur’an, 9th century
#CULconservation #ParchmentConservation
A fascinating treatment by #CULconservation @theul.bsky.social for Criminology #RadzinowiczLibrary 🦛
#Conservation #LibraryConservation #NotJustBooks
A large, realistic model of a hippopotamus head with its mouth wide open sits on a white surface in a bright, modern room with glass walls and visible office equipment. This photo was taken before the artwork's conservation.
'Morning Smile’, affectionately known as Asbo, was the wonderful creation of three inmates of His Majesty's Young Offender Institution Brinsford. Recently, Asbo began to show signs of deterioration, with the paint on the mouth area lifting and peeling. 🦛
#CULConservation
Come and work with us! @theul.bsky.social 📚
#CULconservation #BookConservation @conservators.bsky.social
Almost midsummer, and almost twilight in the Dye Garden @theul.bsky.social
#CULconservation #CambridgeUniversityLibrary #LibraryGardens #Midsummer #DyePlants #PracticeBasedResearch
Always a pleasure to host colleagues and visitors in #CULconservation 📚
Practice-based research and Heritage Science are key to @theul.bsky.social and @hips-project.bsky.social
A member of the UL's Conservation team planting a seeding in a flower bed.
A paper bag full of seeds ready to be planted.
Little seedlings growing in the courtyard of the UL. We see a wooden plant label that says: "The Dye Garden".
Our brand-new Dye Garden is coming to life! With guidance from colleagues across the UL, and
@cubotanicgarden.bsky.social, our Conservation team has planted traditional dye plants once used in manuscript painting. 🎨
#CambridgeUniversityLibraries #CULconservation #DyeGarden
#CULconservation are having a #CC20 watch party 📚
Excellent papers from colleagues @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social @lampallib.bsky.social @thejohnrylands.bsky.social among others.
#CareandConservationOfManuscripts #CambridgeUniversityLibraries @theul.bsky.social
Manuscripts and books being carefully placed on their cradles for the Curious Cures exhibition.
It’s all hands on deck in #CULconservation as our Conservation team prepares objects for the next exhibition, Curious Cures: medicine in the medieval world.
#CambridgeUniversityLibraries #BookConservation #CuriousCures
Today is #WorldPigmentDay so an exciting time for these beautiful (unassuming) plants to arrive @theul.bsky.social 🌱
Colourful adventures to follow with #CULconservation 🎨
#CambridgeUniversityLibraries #MedievalPalette #PracticeBasedResearch
For #InternationalWomensDay a few of the brilliant colleagues in #CULconservation and some #BookConservation friends 📚
@theul.bsky.social #IWD @newnhamcollege.bsky.social
It’s been a minute since we last added to our #CambridgeLibraryBingo card, but spring is in the air so #CULconservation took a stroll to the Wren library @trincolllibcam.bsky.social
#cambridgeuniversitylibraries #Bibliophiles #WrenLibrary #WorldBookDay @theul.bsky.social @uniofcam.bsky.social
The Cambridge University Library Conservation Department receives a visit from colleagues at the Oxford Conservation Consortium (OCC). We see a group of conservation colleagues looking at an old book in the studio.
The visit focused on the exchange of experiences around the consolidation of pigments, looking at case studies from the UL’s amazing special collections.
#CambridgeUniversityLibraries #CULconservation #ConservationCommunity #BookConservation #PigmentConsolidation
The Cambridge University Library Conservation Department receives a visit from colleagues at the Oxford Conservation Consortium (OCC). We see a group of conservation colleagues chatting in the studio.
Last year the Cambridge University Library Conservation Department received a visit from colleagues at the Oxford Conservation Consortium (OCC).
#CambridgeUniversityLibraries #CULconservation #ConservationCommunity #BookConservation #PigmentConsolidation #KnowledgeSharing
Some glorious #BooksInBooks for the first #ManuscriptMonday of 2025 📚
@theul.bsky.social Dd.9.18, Dicts of Philosophers, 15th century, England.
@theulspeccoll.bsky.social
#CambridgeUniversityLibraries #CuriousCures #CULconservation
Conservation in progress!
Marina is carefully removing fragments of a historic rebinding layer from the spine of a 17th-century Arabic manuscript. The fully conserved manuscript can now be seen in the Endless Stories Exhibition at Cambridge University Library.
#CULConservation
A new #ManuscriptMonday in this blue space. I hear it’s a friendly place to be 📚
@theul.bsky.social MS Nn.3.74, ʻAjāʼib al-makhlūqāt,’ dated 974H/ 1566AD
#CULconservation #cambridgeuniversitylibraries
![A fine example of medieval illumination under the microscope [CUL Ii.6.2].](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:43ao4hv5cj2secugksntvvgk/bafkreihs7ekwqqk327w63oa5v6pbfza3dkkpqbp3y2wn3m6ypojjmd6i2y)
A fine example of medieval illumination under the microscope [CUL Ii.6.2].
This week, the #CULconservation team will share their top 10 manuscripts from the #CuriousCures in Cambridge Libraries Project. First up, is a fine example of medieval illumination under the microscope [CUL Ii.6.2]. #medievalmanuscripts www.cam.ac.uk/stories/curi...
