National Endangered Skills & Trades
at the Fitters Workshop Kingston 2019
Do you have a rare trade or skill? Do you make arrows barrels brooms or paper? Do you make glass eyes, shoes or wigs? Do you sell your wares?
If you would like to participate in the fair then send us your EOI with a CV and portfolio digitally to enquiries@endangeredheritage.com or by post to Shop 8 Paragon Mall, 8-20 Gladstone St Fyshwick ACT 2609 to register your interest.
22, 23, & 24 March 2019
Albert Hall, Commonwealth Avenue
The Rotary Club of Canberra City has its annual antiques fair again this year. All proceeds from this wonderful event go to CanTeen - the charity that supports young people from ages 12-25 living with cancer. The antique dealers come from all around Australia, travelling into Canberra for this weekend event in support of this very worthy cause. The venue has wheelchair access available amd light meals will be available for the duration of the event. We hope to see you there, so come and say hello and enjoy all the treasures this fair has to offer.
Admission $10.00, Cacessions $8.00 - with accompanied children under the age of 14 free.
For more information: http://rotaryclubofcanberracity.org.au/
13 April till the 5 May, 2019
Endangered Heritage is proud to take part of this wonderful festival, and this year has three events on offer:
4pm, Saturday, 13 April
Endangered Heritage in Fyshwick
This free introductory talk runs for a little over an hour and is in honour of those who have served our country and their families. The workshop covers all aspects of military items, metals, leathers, textiles, papers and documents with a special focus on the health risks of keep certain materials in the home, e.g., old medic kits and weapons. This talk is supported by the National RSL for the ACT Heritage Festival.
Admission is FREE - bookings are essential as space is limited.
11-12pm, Sunday, 14 April
Endangered Heritage, Fyshwick
Robin Tait, our senior Paper conservator will run through the amazing history of the photographic image to the present digital age. She will cover handling and care of the different types of photographic technology. Daguerreotypes, Ambrotypes, Tin Types, Calo Types, as well as 19th and 20th century Photography will be covered by Robin Tait in this informative 1 hour long show and tell. If you have any photographs that you wish for Robin to take a closer look at, we ask that you make a booking with her to have a private consultation. However if you own any photographs that you’d wish to share with a group of interested people, bring them along. Robin Tait is an accomplished Paper and Book conservator with extensive experience in Photography conservation.
Admission is $40.00, bookings are essential as spaces are limited.
1:00-4:00pm, Saturday, 4 May
Endangered Heritage, Fyshwick
Bring in your special gown, aged weddings dress, inherited frock or christening gown 10 days before the workshop and we will insect treat then prepare the garment ready for Pack up your Frock. This workshop delivered . by Victoria Pearce - Endangered Heritage's Director and Senior Textiles conservator will teach you how to care for your sentimental and valuable gowns. "It is crazy to have something boxed and then feel too nervous to take it out and look at it." Pack up your Frock is designed to give you the confidence to enjoy that special garment you are the custodian of and look after it so that someone else will able to enjoy it years later.
Bookings are essential. Dresses must be dropped off at Endangered Heritage Fyshwick no later than the 23rd of April in order to be insect treated properly in time for the workshop. Admission $350.00, this covers custom boxing, archival tissue, insect treatment, and workshop.
If you frock requires additional treatment and attention please contact enquiries@endangeredheritage.com to make a booking to see Victoria and discuss the options available.
13-14 July
The Fitters Workshop, Kingston
The first National Endangered Skills and Trades festival is a celebration of the artisans with traditional trades. Traditional trades are not lost or gone but form the solid basis for innovation and new uses and products. Come and see bookbinders, horologists, french polishers, and lace makers in action, who are using their traditional knowledge to make new products todays. many traditional trades fall outside Australia's apprenticship training structure and we wish to raise public awareness of these fascinating trades what are still possible to learn about and train in. In a world of the same corporate products, bespoke solutions, created specifically for the customer are the way we can embrace our past and create an unique future.
Conservation and Preservation Workshops:
Pack up your Frock
Wedding dresses, debutant ball gowns, cocktail dresses, some are just so hard to store. Dry-cleaners box them at huge expense and often with non-archival materials. The plastic from dry-cleaner bags can also do damage. Learn how box your gown yourself, be it an antique dress from previous generations or your own special gown. Bring it in 10 days prior to the event date and we will freeze and prepare it for storage. On the day we will have a glass of champagne, look at each gown and how to box them properly so you will have access to it in the future. $350.00 includes custom boxing, archival wrapping tissue and workshop run by Victoria Pearce.
Care of 3D Textiles
This workshop covers the storage of hats, bags, shoes, bears and anthing 3d and tricky. The workshop will give hands on making supports and halping with boxing. Bring your item and we will help you make all you need to keep it for the future. $330 includes materials.
Conservation 101: This workshop will work through remedial care of collections, we'll have the microscope out and we will demonstrate and help you to do a few hands on tasks which prepare and object for long term storage to help triage your won collections. We will discuss metals. textiles, paper, photographs and books. We will debunk myths and show you behind the scenes at the science of it all. 5 Work stations will be set up where participants will get to work on their own family collection items and be guided through handling examination and preliminary cleaning. The main objective of this workshop is to enable individuals to have enough skills they can triage their own collections. A very useful workshop for Family custodians, museum curators and volunteers.
Working on Large Technology Objects.
Andrew Pearce is a senior Objects Conservator who has worked on some amazing items at the Australian War Memorial, The National Museum and in private practice. Coem and listen to him talk about the preseervation issues of working on Large technology objects including tanks, planes cars and motorbikes. Discussion encouraged, regarding personal projects.
There are holes in my woollens:
This talk is a comprehensive discussion about the critters that creep and crawl. The workshop will cover how to find identify and eradicate pests in your home and pretect your valuables. As we own more and more synthetic fibres the risk to our heritage items and valuables becomes greater. Victoria writes disaster managment recommendations for institutions in Australia and abroad, so find out how easy it is to manage items in your own home.
Asset managment support: This course will help you to plan and prepare for the better care of your art assets. Learn about handling, transporting and the effects of environmental impacts. Be prepared for flood, fire or insects and learn how to respond. Important insurance issues and loan issues if you are approached to display the work. We will cover everything from collection documentation to disaster plan implementation.
Making art and Heirlooms for family or profit.
This workshop will demonstrate how many materials are just not suitable for longevity. With so much pressure on our liesure time people are more concerned than ever if they are putting the time in the product should be of quality and last. Price is not an indicator of quality of materials. Vicotria will discuss how you can pre test materials fibres dyes and inks for the likely hazards which may befall them over their first 100 years in use. Professional artists are most welcome.
Professional workshops we can run on request for Museum professionals and organisations.
Is it still Safe?
This workshop directly covers the OH&S risks to staff in Museum collections. We cover how some items deteriorate and breakdown becoming hazardous over time. The training covers handling disposal and how the intake policy needs to reflect the future hazards that may become a problem in collection stores. Many younger staff who have grown up in a safe environment, have little idea of how Radium was in everything including toothpaste and how loose Asbestos was use for fake snow on film sets (covering many artefacts). This course covers the hazards in our collective history and the impact of trade routes delivering hazards to our shores. Essential training for loan officers, intake oficers, donation officers, curators and registraltion staff. Please call to book and discounts are given to groups over 10 people.
Managing your volunteers: How to attract and keep good volunteers is critical to running a small historical musuem. This workshop introduces conservation and preventative conservation training for volunteers so everyone understands the importance of "the no food policy" and the other things we do. This workshop is aimed at Small museums and societies who need to get consistency from their volunteers.
Collection protection: Focuses on preventing disasters internally. Responding to disasters from external events and being prepared to deal with the consequences of fire flood and pests.
Integrated pest managment: This is a course which covers insect damage to collections historic buildings and of artefacts on loans. This talk will expalin how to find, identify and eradicate insects in your colelctions and how to keep them away in the future. The course covers international best practice standards, housekeeping, gallery maintenance, and policy development for preventing infestations and assessing the real risk in your organisation.
Introduction to Book Binding through history: Robin Tait looks at the history of books and the types of binding used to create them. Robin covers the technology and methods behind their bindings, as well as the styles and the fashions of the times. This workshop looks at how to care for books of different vintages and how to identifying and differentiate between eras.
All of the colours of the Rainbow: An introduction to pigment colours use handling safety grinding and paint manufacture. this short workshop is a stepping off point to feeling confident to move away from the 'Packet food' of premade paint to the talent of making your own paint.
Shop 8 Paragon Mall
8-20 Gladstone St
Fyshwick ACT 2609
Phone: 02 62806280
Phone: 0417107851
