A high point in every year is my visit to West Dean College to lecture with the Foundation degree in historic craft practices. This is an enormously challenging group of trainee makers, repairers and conservators in a range of disciplines: Musical instrument, clock and furniture making as well as conservation of books, metal objects, and ceramics… For more about studying to be a musical instrument maker, read my blog, Violin Making Schools in Britain.
From the late medieval period and right the way through the Renaissance we see an abundance of images of Apollo and Orpheus playing the lyre,
Jacques Besson was born a protestant around 1540 in Grenoble. In 1559 he published an alchemical book about how to extract oils and waters from
For six months in 2025, Hogarth’s House in Chiswick is hosting a wonderful exhibition in collaboration with St Mary’s University in West London. It’s a
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