{"id":2574,"date":"2025-10-16T10:07:33","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T17:07:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/?p=2574"},"modified":"2025-10-16T10:07:33","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T17:07:33","slug":"dive-into-the-painstaking-process-of-restoring-an-18th-century-fan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/?p=2574","title":{"rendered":"Dive into the Painstaking Process of Restoring an 18th-Century Fan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/fan-2.jpg\" alt=\"Dive into the Painstaking Process of Restoring an 18th-Century Fan\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Armed with tweezers, a porcupine quill, and more patience than most of us could fathom, the senior paper conservator of the Victoria &amp; Albert Museum tackles a finicky restoration project in a new video. Susan Catcher walks us through her impeccably precise process as she restores a damaged fan dating back 200 years. She shares insights into her techniques and materials, all of which have to be reversible should the project need to be redone.<\/p>\n<p>This video is one of many within the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLe2ihXndm5js3qWDF7kSHLJjBbZ5XG9g0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">V&amp;A\u2019s series<\/a> on conservation, which includes restoring Shakespearean costumes, a portrait of Marie Antoinette, and a Samurai figure. Watch more on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@vamuseum\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">YouTube<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1135\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/fan.jpg\" alt=\"a detail image of an 18th century fan\" class=\"wp-image-463874\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/members\">Colossal Member<\/a> today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7 per month. The article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/2025\/10\/18th-century-fan-restoration-va-museum\/\">Dive into the Painstaking Process of Restoring an 18th-Century Fan<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/\">Colossal<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Armed with tweezers, a porcupine quill, and more patience than most of us could fathom, the senior paper conservator of the Victoria &amp; Albert Museum tackles a finicky restoration project&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2574\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}