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  • 2020 New Year Greetings

    New Year Greetings from us all at May Berkouwer Textile Conservation Happy 2020! Our 2019 Christmas Card front picture showed a detail of the lampas silk wall coverings in the Boudoir at Arlington Court in Devon. Designed specifically for covering walls, this extraordinary fabric has repeat of over 3.7 m. …

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  • Tapestries from the Spangled Bedroom at Knole

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    Conservation of the Tapestries from the Spangled Bedroom at National Trust Property Knole by May Berkouwer Textile Conservation This is our third Bulletin regarding…

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  • Ickworth House – Peeking Behind their Curtains

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    February and March saw Anna and Maria working on site at National Trust’s Ickworth House conserving the Drawing Room curtains in…

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  • Knole’s Spangled Bedroom Tapestries

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    Conservation of the Tapestries from the Spangled Bedroom at National Trust Property Knole by May Berkouwer Textile Conservation This is our…

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  • New Year’s Greetings!

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    Best New Year’s wishes to all! Many of you will have received our Christmas card, this year depicting the Roman Emperor…

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  • Helping the Police with their Enquiries!

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    At the end of November, Anna and Maria travelled to Dublin to work on the display for the new Garda…

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  • A Spangled Opportunity

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      Conservation of the Tapestries from the Spangled Bedroom at National Trust Property Knole by May Berkouwer Textile Conservation We are…

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  • Conserving an Embroidered Fragment by Mrs Delany

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    Recently we had the pleasure of working on one of the exquisite embroideries by Mrs Delany. Mrs Mary Delany was an…

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  • In Memoriam of Dale Mann 1959 – 2016

    Dale Mann was an artist, a father and a friend. He came to work with me in 2006, by accident…

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  • The Triumph of Prudence unveiled at the National Museum of Scotland

    Recently the National Museum of Scotland had completed the latest phase of their updating Masterplan. As part of this, our…

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  • 1860’s Painted Burmese Maps

    Cambridge University Library  approached us to assist with the safe storage of a collection of three hand-painted 1860’s  Burmese Maps. The Maps…

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  • Fans in new display at Ickworth House

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    We were recently commissioned to conserve a small selection from the gorgeous Ickworth House NT fan’s collection. After being surface…

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  • Dress for the War: Costume Mounting Uniforms for IWM Duxford

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    Dressed for War: Costume Mounting for The American Air Museum, IWM Duxford The year started with a large, on-site project…

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  • IWM’s Civic Banner goes on display at Limerick Museum to celebrate the Easter Uprising 1916

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    The Imperial War Museum in London owns the Civic Banner bearing the coat of arms of Limerick which was confiscated…

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  • “Christ in Glory” – Coventry Cathedral

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    Article in Museums + Heritage on line magazine outlining the impressive cleaning of this great Tapestry. To read this article…

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  • V & A Galleries

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    For the past two years our studio team has worked tirelessly  to conserve the tapestry ‘Moses and Pharoahs Crown’ The tapestry…

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