Scraping Gut and Plucking Feathers
Last year ICON organised the conference: “Scraping Gut and Plucking Feathers: the Deterioration and Conservation of Feather and Gut Materials”, which took place at the University of york. Its great to see that ICON have made papers from the conference available online, including:
- Fading behavior of red shafted flicker feathers. By Ellen Pearlstein and Lionel Keene. <Paper Part 1, and Part 2>.
- The strcture of feathers simple as well as brilliant. By Hein van Grouw. <Paper>
- First aid at the front line. By Katrina van Grouw. <Paper>
- An early gut parka from the Arctic, its past and current treatment. By Pippa Cruickshank and Vanesssa Saiz Gomez. <Paper>
- A gut skin parka from the ethnographic collection of the Reiss-Engelhorn Museum. By Sandra Gottsmann. <Paper>
- Gut reaction. The history, treatment and display techniques of gut garments at the Pitt Rivers Museum. By Kate Jackson and Andrew Huges. <Paper>
- Summary of Practical session. By Allyson Rae. <Paper>
