The Chantry recently hosted an extended research visit from Surjit Singh, a second-year MA student from the National Museum Institute, New Delhi. In his two-month study visit to the UK, Surjit has been immersed in conservation, history of the book, and Sikh manuscripts in particular. At Chantry he has been reading extensively on paper making and intends to prepare a seminar as part of his MA course comparing South Asian and Western papermaking.
The titles he consulted included old classics by Dard Hunter as well as more recently acquired books such as Timothy Barrett’s “European Hand Papermaking” and Sylvia Albro’s “Fabriano”, both of which were acquired through donations received at the 2018 ICON Book and Paper Conference in Oxford.
Librarians do like piles of books as a sign of activity! It was great to host Surjit and provide some interesting reading matter for him. If you are interested in South Asian paper you might want to look at the subject bibliography by Oxford Conservation Consortium’s own Jasdip Singh Dhillon.
Thank you so much OCC
Thank you so much OCC and Chanty library, the best library on paper conservation 🙏🙏