Between 2015 and 2018, we had the very great pleasure of undertaking the de-installation, conservation and re-installation of 12 costumed funeral effigies for display in Westminster Abbey’s new galleries …
Hidden Treasures
2018 year round up
We keep thinking things can not get any busier or more exciting work wise and then they do – 2018 has been no exception! This year we have been particularly challenged space-wise as our long term site work teams from Westminster Abbey and Knole came home to roost bringing mountains of equipment back with them …
2017- Dust and Teamwork
The main themes of this last busy year seem to have been dust and BIG, complex, dirty textiles. Oh and scaffolding. We bought our own scaffold tower this year and then had to buy extensions to make it even taller. The new equipment is great but what makes these big projects possible is the amazing …
Effigy dry cleaning labels, Westminster Abbey
For the last few months we have had the great privilege of examining and undressing some of the Royal Funeral Effigies from Westminster Abbey
Spring Cleaning 2016
If winter is a time that makes one think of stillness, hibernation and dormancy, it’s been nothing of the sort here, quite the opposite in fact