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Textiles in Libraries: Context & Conservation series

Talk 6: Tying up loose threads: the Textiles in Libraries project so far

Join the Bodleian Conservation and Collection Care team to find out more about what the Textiles in Libraries project has involved so far.
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Talk 5: Textiles and text: A collaborative approach to conserving textile-covered manuscripts

Conservators Jane Eagan and Maria Hayward describe their work treating seven manuscripts re-covered in velvet for Henry VIII, part of a small corpus of royal books still in their textile bindings in the Queens College Library
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Talk 4: Textiles from East to West: case studies from the Leiden collections

Building on earlier talks in the series that explored the uses of textiles in library collections, this talk focuses on examples of textiles in manuscript bindings in the Oriental collections of Leiden University Library.
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Talk 3: Stitches, leaves and smelly old books: in conversation with textile artist Alice Fox

Textile based artwork is well aligned with stitched or folded book structures. Giving book-related examples from her practice, artist Alice Fox describes how an experimental approach to materials can lead to a variety of creative outcomes.
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Talk 2: Beyond the velvet cover: textiles and craft in Byzantine bookbinding

Georgios Boudalis explores the subject of textiles and craft in Byzantine bookbinding, sharing techniques little known not only in the context of Byzantine bookbinding but also more generally in the context of Byzantine material culture.
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Talk 1: Textiles in Libraries: glimpses from the Bodleian

The first talk in the Textiles in Libraries: Context and Conservation series brings together three colleagues from across the Bodleian Library to explore the wide variety and sometimes surprising uses of textiles found in our collections.

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