Course description
There are relatively few opportunities for conservation professionals to find specialist training to enhance their knowledge of materials and techniques. West Dean College has developed a series of short courses aimed at meeting this training need.
Wallpaper can make a room appear lighter or darker, grand or simple, striking or comfortingly traditional. Just like our predecessors, we use it to stamp our personality on a new house, impress the neighbours, transform a shabby room for important guests and provide a backdrop for momentous family events. Wallpaper is relatively easy to acquire, fast to apply and is instantly replaceable to accommodate changes in fashion or function. As such, it provides a valuable comment on contemporary design, society, and the development and availability of both materials and technology. Some wallpapers can be admired as works of art, others as products of great craftsmanship or invention, but it is perhaps their role within the history and context of the historic interior which adds the most significant, and often intriguing, dimension.
From a whole room of magnificent hand-painted Chinese Export paper, to a few fibres discovered behind an architrave, this course seeks to provide an introduction to the history, identification, conservation and recreation of historic wallpapers using a lively mix of seminars, case studies, practical workshops and historic house visits.
Non-residential fee: £363 Plus cover charge for visits: £17
Fully-inclusive residential fee: From £492
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