BehindtheScenes Category
Managing and Sharing Digital Knowledge
Exploring ways of managing and sharing the outputs of projects and activities that create knowledge
Naoko Nomoto: Silver Studio grasspaper stencils (2018)
Our conservator Emma Shaw looked at some intriguing stencilled materials of the 1890s with the help of Naoko Nomoto, a postgraduate volunteer.
Seika University and Oita Prefectural Museum, Japan (2017)
During summer 2017, our Katagami in Practice project made an impact overseas. An exhibition, curated by MoDA’s Zoe Hendon and Serena Dyer, was hosted by Seika University in Kyoto, and the Oita Prefectural Museum in Japan. Japan and the Silver Studio This exhibition explored the influence of Japanese katagami stencils on Western art in the […]
Loan: Hertford Museum’s ‘Kitsch’ Exhibition (2017)
A few of our wallpapers added to this examination of personal taste and why we are drawn to certain stylistic elements.
Elisabeth Randell: Conserving Transparent Paper
MoDA’s Preventative Conservation Officer, Emma Shaw supports students on the MA Conservation course at Camberwell College of Arts, University of the Arts London, through placements and project work. Recently, Elisabeth Randell completed some conservation work for us as part of her course. She shares her experience here. I was fortunate enough to work on three […]
Custodians of Digital Memories: Digital Preservation in museums
What does digital preservation mean?
Loan: ‘The Craft of the Japanese Stencil’, ULITA (2017)
MoDA holds one of the UK’s important collections of Japanese katagami stencils. Another significant collection can be found at ULITA, part of Leeds University. In 2017, ULITA held an exhibition which celebrated the art of the Japanese stencil or ‘katagami’. These stencils were used for dyeing designs onto clothing ranging from everyday worker’s garments to the […]
Loan: ‘1950s Design & Aspiration’ at Compton Verney (2016)
In 2016 we lent seven items to an exhibition at Compton Verney in Warwickshire. These included two photographs of interiors of the period, a swatch of contemporary paint colours, and several trade catalogues of furnishings and interior design. The exhibition explored the ways in which 1950s consumers were sold an aspirational lifestyle after the deprivations […]
Tracing Paper
MoDA’s Preventative Conservation Officer, Emma Shaw, shares her knowledge of tracing papers. I recently attended a two day Conservation of Tracing Paper Workshop at Tate Britain lead by Hildegard Homburger, a paper conservator from Berlin with a great deal of experience in the conservation of architectural designs and art works on tracing paper. The course […]
Historic Magazines given new lease of life (2014)
MoDA’s Preventive Conservation Officer, Emma Shaw, explains how the magazine collection has recently become much more accessible to users. The collections of the Museum of Domestic Design and Architecture include some fantastic magazines dating from the early twentieth century. They are frequently requested by students and researchers because they are interesting from a variety of […]