New covers for old chairs
This week our sewing volunteer Kristine came to fit some new dust covers for the chairs in the Reynolds Room. Greater access in the Reynolds Room has been made possible this year by the use off the...
View ArticleNT Textile Studio is on-line!
The National Trust textile studio in Norfolk have just launched their own blog. Take a look via the link below http://nttextileconservationstudio.wordpress.com One of their current projects (since...
View ArticleHow do you monitor dust?
Regular readers of the Conservation Team blog will know that we spend a lot of our time dealing with dust! In Knole’s damp environment, dust can become stuck on the surface of objects and form a...
View ArticleInvestigating layers
In 2011 and again in February this year Kate Gill, textile and upholstery conservator, came to Knole to carry out some investigation work in to the suite of furniture in the Reynolds Room. Here is the...
View ArticleThe James II Bed
One of four beds at Knole, the James II Bed is probably one of the most important pieces of Stuart furniture in existence to have survived. For many years the bed has been in an extremely fragile...
View ArticleClean, pack, move…
…and four days later two show rooms are cleared of their contents. It sounds like three easy steps, but nothing is ever that easy at Knole. Packing away Lady Betty’s Bedroom and Sitting Room for the...
View ArticleA Sonnet for Knole
One of our volunteers, Kristin Gill, has written a wonderful sonnet describing the problems the building and collection at Knole face. She has beautifully summed up the threats the Inspired by Knole...
View ArticleWinter Clean in the Ballroom
Completing the first room of the winter clean is always a good feeling. It took 8 days and there were a couple of extra challenges this year. In preparation for the next phase of external building...
View ArticleTextile cleaning in the Spangled Bedroom
Back in March, Jane Smith, one of the conservators from the National Trust’s Textile Studio in Norfolk came to Knole for 3 days to carry out some cleaning and preventive conservation to upholstered...
View ArticleRe-hanging tapestries, all in a days work!
As the second phase of external building work has finished we are beginning to reinstate the rooms affected. On Monday the first stage of returning Lady Betty’s Bedroom back to its normal self began...
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