There are still a few places available for the UKIC Furniture Section
Conference:
Pest Attack and Pest Control in Organic Materials
Museum of London, 18 November 1996
The conference will explore the sources, control and eradication of pest
attack in organic materials pertaining to furniture. It will address the
application of control and eradication techniques available to the
conservation profession. Toxic eradication methods will be covered briefly,
but emphasis will be given to non-toxic methods that include the use of high
and low temperatures and reduced oxygen environments.
9.00 Registration and Coffee
9.30 Introduction
9.45 David Pinniger (Consultant Entomologist) - Identification of insect
pests and damage
10.15 David Horden (Private Restorer) - The particular problems
encountered in furniture and architectural woodwork
10.45 Roy Thomson (The Leather Conservation Centre) - The effects of pest
attack on leather
11.15 Valerie Blyth (Senior Textile Conservator, Victoria and Albert
Museum) - Textile pest management at the V&A
11.45 - 12.15 Questions
12.30 Lunch
2.00 Robert Child (Head of Conservation, National Museums and Galleries
of Wales) - Detection, monitoring and control
2.30 Mark Nicholson (Thermo Lignum) - Anoxic atmospheres in conjunction
with heat/humidity
Dr Werner Rotberg (Thermo Lignum) - The Thermo Lignum controlled
heating/constant humidity method
3.15 Tea
3.45 Nick Umney (Assistant Head of Furniture Conservation, Victoria and
Albert Museum) An investigation into the use of low oxygen
atmosphere for insect pest control
4.15 Helen Lloyd (The Housekeeper, The National Trust) Good Housekeeping
- Prevention is Better than Cure?
4.45 - 5.30 Forum
There will also be a poster session and "trade fair".
Cost: 35.00 (Student Rate 25.00) Includes lectures, postprints,
"trade fair" and refreshments (morning coffee, buffet lunch and afternoon
tea)
To book please phone to:
Lyndsay Piper 01993 878593
If you cannot attend the conference but are interested in buying the
postprints or contributing a paper on your own 'pest experince', please
E-mail or snail mail:
Dominique A. Rogers
Ganapati Kumari, Pin Mill, Ipswich, IP9 1JW. UK
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Ganapati Kumari, Pinmill, Ipswich, IP9 1JW, UK.
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