Zenzie Tinker Conservation provides a complete range of conservation treatments for historic, modern & contemporary textiles, plus bespoke display and storage.
Brighton
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Such a fantastic exhibition to work on!
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It was also lovely to see a focus on the conservation of a Schiaparelli jacket (that I can remember being at the studio) by Jamie and Ania at @ZenzieTinker!
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Do you remember the reproduction bodice of this 19th century dress? This week I was able to continue the embroidery work by the green elytra’s from @ZenzieTinker . I can’t wait to see how will it be looked after the metal threads are added 💚
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Now the next step for this project is replicating the same conditions seen in the real object before it is submitted to conservation treatment. For that reason we have prepared those mock-ups with real beetles (given by @ZenzieTinker) embroidered with silver over batiste cotton
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Do you remember the green beetles skirt? Well, today I could take the project back for the first test phase: replicating mock-ups for finding the right conservation treatment. Those has been very kindly given by @ZenzieTinker and will serve for testing washing solutions.
Highly recommend a visit to 'Double Weave: Bourne and Allen’s Modernist Textiles' @museumartcraft which opened last Friday evening - we were thrilled and proud to do much of the conservation and mounting for this fabulous exhibition!
#textiles #ditchling #textileconservation
Here are those beautiful @wtmworthing shoes after conservation along with their custom-made storage box & handling tray, plus invisible inner supports that offer access without handling for storage & display
Shoes of the #1790s have a distinctive technique, patterning echoed in the smaller repeats of gowns worn at the same time. The coloured leather was stencilled all over, usually in black, to create a contrast pattern. These three examples @StFagans_Museum @wtmworthing @ROMtoronto
Ania is currently working on the dearest pair of late 18th century painted leather shoes associated with Princess Adelaide from @wtmworthing. They also have wonderful printed paper labels - to give them some date context, Bruckner was bankrupt by 1809 & the princess died in 1810.
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The Colours of the Middlesex Regiment have returned from @ZenzieTinker following a conservation clean and condition assessment. They are being hung in the north transept today.
There’s still time to book onto our Casting Resin Replica Elements, here in Brighton on Sat 29/4 - you’ll come away from this this one day course with skills, tips and tricks on how to replicate zip pulls, buckles, buttons & beads. Book now! #textileconservation #workshop
Don’t miss our online talk with Zenzie next Tuesday 28/3 @ 7pm, taking a look at our epic project conserving the @RMGreenwich Battle of Solebay - booking via our website:
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Members may be interested in an upcoming online talk by @ZenzieTinker on Tuesday 28th March 'Conserving the Battle of Solebay tapestry': zenzietinker.co.uk/product/t…
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The Van der Veldes: Greenwich, Art and the Sea exh/n @RMGreenwich is revelatory. Remarkable Solebay tapestry restored by @ZenzieTinker; also amazing detail in the pen paintings of Van der Velde the Elder, sometimes even including himself drawing in them. rmg.co.uk/whats-on/queens-ho…
ALT Detail from the restored Solebay tapestry showing boats with their rigging and people adrift in the waves
ALT Small detail from pen painting depicting the Battle of Scheveningen on 10 August 1653 by Willem van de Velde the Elder, which shows himself seated in a small vessel with his back to the viewer with a sketching board propped on his knee and wearing a broad brimmed hat as he records the scene and someone (perhaps his son) standing next to him observing him at work.
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😍Look what is now hanging in the Queen's House!
The stunning 17th century Solebay Tapestry, meticulously conserved by @ZenzieTinker following our #SaveSolebay campaign, is waiting for you to come and see it as part of the #VanDeVeldes exhibition: bit.ly/TheQueensHouse-2023
ALT Photo of two people standing in front of the Solebay Tapestry
New workshop alert! Casting Replica Resin Elements on Sat 29/4, 10-4pm here in Brighton with Jamie & Geoffrey Major - perfect for costume conservators, costume makers, jewellery makers & collectors:
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#textileconservation #resin #Brighton #workshop #makers
18 months, over 3500 conservation hours, more than 7 miles of thread & an intense weekend of lining later … we finally installed the Battle of Solebay tapestry in the Queen’s House @RMGreenwich. Exceptional work carried out by our incredibly talented & skilled team #tapestry
Great thread (pun intended) about the work we’ve been carrying out for @CharlestonTrust 👇
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Aren’t these embroidered WW1 cards gorgeous? Join Hazel at our Brighton workshop & learn how to sew your own special card, all inspired by Hazel’s vast collection! Sat 11/3, 10am-4pm
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#brighton #brightonevents #brightonworkshops #embroidery
A welcome sight for the first week of the new year - the final border of the @RMGreenwich Battle of Solebay tapestry has come finally come into view. It will be collected & installed next month for the upcoming Van der Velde exhibition so work continues flat out until then!
Fantastic news from @vt_isaac, we can’t wait to see it! #nopressure
Accountability Tweet: Am extremely fortunate, excited & a bit terrified to share news that @BloomsburyAcad have agreed to publish my biography of #actress Ellen Terry (1847-1928). Focusing on her #dress on & off-stage, it uses these garments to tell her story-1st draft due Feb 24
ALT 1/2 length photograph of Terry as Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing, Lyceum Theatre, 1882. (c) Victoria and Albert Museum Terry performed this role for over four decades, including at her 1906 fifty year stage jubilee. She also adopted the epithet - 'There was a star danced, and under that I was born'.