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Nicholas Hadgraft Scholarship
Application Form 2014
Please send the completed and signed application form, to:
Pauline Hutchinson
The Conservation By Design, Nicholas Hadgraft Scholarship.
Conservation By Design Limited
Timecare Works
5 Singer Way
Kempston
Bedford
MK42 7AW
FAX: +44 (0)1234 852 334
E-mail : pauline.hutchinson@cxdltd.com or Cheryl Porter chezzaporter@yahoo.com
By post, Fax or e-mail and to arrive not later than 18th April 2014 . The successful applicant
will be notified by early June 2014.
Please note that the main criteria will be for applicants with bookbinding or book conservation
skills. This includes both students and practicing conservators. Priority will be given to applicants
with no other form of funding.
It is important to include photographs or CD-Rom of your work and, if you would like to
include references please feel welcome to do so.
The scholarship will be an award of £1500 towards the cost of attending the Montefiascone Book
Conservation Summer School held each year in the medieval hill town of Montefiascone.
Located between Rome and Siena and situated next to lake Bolsena and close to the beautiful
Etruscan City of Orvieto.
There are four separate courses given by different tutors and the scholarship can be used
towards the cost of attending one or all four weeks.
Applicant Details (please type or PRINT clearly )
Name:
Mrs/ Mr
Address:
Email:
Telephone:
 Day:
 Evening:
 Mobile:
 Fax:
Title: Ms/
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 What is your relevant experience?
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What is your occupation?
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How did you hear about the Nicholas Hadgraft Scholarship Trust
 Describe how you hope to benefit from the scholarship
(Please continue on a separate sheet of paper if necessary)
Scholarship Details
 Please underline which course or courses you wish to attend:
Week 1: 28 July -1 August
Recreating the Medieval Palette by Cheryl Porter
Week 2: 4 – 8 August
Two Semi-limp Parchment Binding styles by Anne Hillam
Week 3: 11 - 15 August
12th century English Limp Tawed Skin binding by Jim Bloxham and Shaun
Thompson
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Scholarship Details
Week 4:18 – 22 August
An embroidered Turkish Binding by Kristine rose and Gaia Petrella
Qualifications
(List all relevant qualifications gained)
Career History (Including Students):
Current Employment (or College)
 Name and address of employer (or College).
 When did you (either):
Start working for your present employer.
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Start your course
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Describe your work or course subject .
Previous Employment (or college)
 Name and address of employer (or college):
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How long were you employed (or training):
 Describe your work or course subject:
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Have you tried to obtain funds from elsewhere and if so from whom and did they grant
you any funds?
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Have you attended the Montefiascone Book Conservation Summer School
before? Yes/No
If Yes – when ?
Should I be awarded the Nicholas Hadgraft Scholarship, I agree to:
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Co-operate with any Conservation By Design press publicity about my award with
a view to encouraging others to apply for scholarships. This may include the use
of relevant photographs which may be published.
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Date
Conservation By Design Limited is committed to respecting the personal data you supply to us. The information we collect will be
relevant to the purposes for which they are to be used, and we will do our utmost to ensure that such data will be accurate,
complete and kept up to date. Whenever personal data is obtained from you, you will have access to information as to how that
data will be used.
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Conservation By Design Limited
“Nicholas Hadgraft Scholarship 2014”
In 2005 Stuart Welch the owner of Conservation By Design Limited in remembrance of his dear friend Dr
Nicholas Hadgraft, who died on July the 4th 2004, decided to offer the annual Conservation By Design
‘Nicholas Hadgraft Scholarship’
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The scholarship is an award of £1500 towards the cost of attending the Montefiascone Book
Conservation Summer School founded by Cheryl Porter. Held each year in the medieval hill town of
Montefiascone that is located between Rome and Siena. Montefiascone is situated next to lake Bolsena
and close to the beautiful Etruscan City of Orvieto.
There are four separate courses of one-week duration given by different tutors and the scholarship can
be used towards the cost of attending one or all four weeks.
Nicholas was a regular tutor at Montefiascone from its beginnings and took great pleasure imparting his
knowledge and sharing his love of books and bookbinding with like-minded individuals.
The courses coincide with the towns wine festival that offers a wonderful atmosphere for social
interaction alongside study and gaining new skills. It is hoped that this scholarship will be a fitting tribute
and allow the worthy recipient to share what Nicolas enjoyed so much about Montefiascone.
MONTEFIASCONE PROJECT
SUMMER 2014
Montefiascone is a small medieval walled city about 100 k (80 miles) north of Rome, on Lake
Bolsena. Since 1988 conservators and others interested in books and their history have come
together to work, to learn and to enjoy this special place. The summer 2013 programme is as
follows:
MONTEFIASCONE PROJECT SUMMER 2014
Montefiascone is a small medieval walled city about 100 k (80 miles) north of Rome,
on Lake Bolsena. Since 1988 conservators and others interested in books and their
history have met here to work, to learn about books and to enjoy this special place.
The Montefiascone Project is pleased to announce the provissional programme for
summer 2013 is as follows:
Re-creating the Medieval Palette 28 July – 01 August 2014
Course Tutor: Cheryl Porter
The class will study the colours (made from rocks,minerals, metals,
insects and plants) that were processed to produce the colours used by
artists throughout the medieval era. The focus will be mostly (though not
exclusively) on manuscript art, both Islamic and European. Participants
will recreate the colours using original recipes. Illustrated lectures will
address the history, geography, chemistry, iconography and conservation
issues. Practical making and painting sessions will follow the lectures.
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Two Semi-limp Parchment Binding styles: 4 – 8 August 2014
Course Tutor: Anne Hillam
Much attention and research has been given to limp parchment bindings,
resulting in a clear terminology to describe these structures. This class will
focus on the relatively less-researched genre of bindings that have been
referred to as “semi-limp”. On its surface a simple structure, this type of
binding presents many quandaries for researchers; the lines between
semi- limp and stiff-board bindings can be blurry at best, and even
compiling a consistent vocabulary to describe their components is far from
straight forward. The semi-limp vellum binding has been conspicuously
overlooked in the literature and there are few, if any, published instructions
in English on how to make these structures. This class will construct and
compare two semi-limp structures from 16-17 century European imprints.
The first will be based on a binding style noted by Nicholas Pickwoad
while examining the Ramey collection at the Pierpont Morgan Library.
This binding is distinguished by a laced flexible cover liner, usually
consisting of cartonnage or laminated paper, forming what could be
viewed as a primary cover (with a secondary parchment cover). A
second, more commonly known structure composed of thin, floating
flexible boards will also be constructed. Both bindings have the
characteristic of the parchment cover only being laced on using the
endband supports.
Information gained from an ongoing analysis on a selection of “semi-limp”
bindings at the New York Academy of Medicine’s Gladys Brooks Book
& Paper Conservation Lab will be included in the discussion.
Some knowledge and experience in bookbinding is required. All materials
needed to construct the models will be provided at a nominal cost.
Participants will need to bring basic bookbinding tools.
12th century English Limp Tawed Skin Binding: 11- 15 August 2014
Course Tutor: Jim Bloxham and Shaun Thompson
Manuscript Pembroke 119 (Alain de Lille, Anticlaudianus) has an
exceptional contemporary binding with interesting structural features,
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including a limp covering of alum-tawed skin, stained red. The covering is
further edged with a separate piece of alum tawed skin and was formerly
fastened with an alum-tawed strap. An examination, by the tutors, of the
sewing which attaches the text-block to the cover has revealed a complex
structure that has yet to be recorded. The beautifully executed sewing of
all of the elements testify to the sophistication of the craftsmanship of the
Romanesque period.
The tutors will enable the course participants to recreate the binding.
Processes will include sewing and covering with alum-tawed skin. The
skins will be stained red prior to covering using the appropriate materials
and techniques. Complementing the practical aspect of the course, the
tutors will seek to set the binding into context. The use of pigments for
staining skins will be explored with pigment specialist Cheryl Porter. Some
knowledge and experience of bookbinding or book history would be useful,
but is not essential. All materials will be supplied (at cost) and participants
will need to bring basic bookbinding equipment and tools. The tutors will
contact prospective tutees well in advance of the class.
An Embroidered Turkish Binding; 18 – 22 August 2014
Course Tutor: Kristine Rose and Gaia Petrella
This workshop will focus on the production of a small 18th century Turkish
binding from the Chester Beatty Library. T453 features an unusual leather
cover embroidered with metallic threads, and boards attached using the
two-piece technique.
Participants will sew a textblock and add endbands in a traditional Islamic
style before constructing these unique covers. Examples of contemporary
Turkish bindings will be discussed.
Cheryl Porter has been Director of the Montefiascone Project since its
inception in 1988. After graduating from Camberwell College (University of
the Arts, London) she worked at University College London Paintings
Analysis Unit, analysing the use of pigments in paintings and manuscripts.
She was Manager of Conservation and Preservation at the Dar al-Kutub
(National Library and Archives of Egypt) and Thesaurus Islamicus
Foundation 2007-2010 and is currently a consultant for a number of
institutions with book, papyrus and manuscript collections. She has
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published many articles concerning colour in manuscripts and has lectured
in the USA, UK, Canada, Australia and throughout Europe.
Anne Hillam is a book & paper conservator dividing her time
between private practice in Western Massachusetts and work as a Senior
Book Conservator at The New York Academy of Medicine’s (NYAM)
Gladys Brooks Book & Paper Conservation Laboratory in New York City.
Anne has been at NYAM since 1998, acting as Head of the laboratory
from 2007 – 2012. For more than 20 years she has specialized in the
conservation of books and paper artifacts for institutions and individuals.
She is a Professional Associate in the American Institute for Conservation.
Jim Bloxam , Head of Conservation, Cambridge University Library, UK.
Jim is an Accredited Conservator of the Institute of Conservation. His
particular research interests lie mainly in the history of books: their
structural qualities and their cultural context. He has taught historical book
structures in the UK, Europe and the US, focusing mainly on Romanesque
and Gothic book structures.
Shaun Thompson is a bench trained bookbinder with over twenty-five
years’ experience. He has worked at Cambridge University Library since
2003. During this time Shaun has taken the opportunity to examine and
recreate some of the medieval bindings within the library. He has sought
to share his knowledge and skills by teaching a number of practical
workshops in the UK. Shaun taught a course last year at Montefiascone
and is looking forward to returning to share his ever-widening knowledge
and experience.
Kristine Rose is Conservator of Manuscripts and Printed Books
(Assistant Keeper) at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge and an
accredited member of the Institute of Conservation. Prior to this, she
worked at the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin with particular focus on the
Turkish manuscript collection and at Cambridge University Library where
she worked on a wide range of Western rare book and manuscript
material but always with a particular interest in Islamic binding structures.
Her work has focused on Islamic manuscript material for a number of
years. Kristine graduated from the BA (Hons) Conservation programme at
Camberwell College of Arts in 2002 and is a member of The Islamic
Manuscript Association.
Gaia Petrella is a freelance conservator based in Milan, Italy. Between
2009 and 2011 Gaia worked on the conservation and consolidation of
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Persian Shahnama manuscripts at the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin.
Gaia then worked as a book conservator at the Vatican Library in Rome
on a collection of 48 manuscripts from Persia, Turkey and the Arab world
with support from the Heydar Aliyev Foundation from Azerbaijan. Since
2012, Gaia has been a tutor on the advanced training course in Library
Materials Conservation at the Iraqi Institute for the Conservation of
Cultural Heritage and Antiquities in Erbil, Iraqi Kurdistan. She is a member
of The Islamic Manuscript Association, and a member of ICON.
The cost of the classes are £445( sterling) per week. Participants may sign
up for 1,2 3 or all four weeks. All classes are in English and prices include
tuition and many of the materials. To enrol, or for further information,
please contact Cheryl Porter on chezzaporter@yahoo.com. More
information is available on the website: www.monteproject.com
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