Scholarship and Workshops
Nicholas Hadgraft Scholarship for the Montefiascone Book Conservation Summer School
CXD’s commitment and passion to conservation is typified by the creation of the CXD Nicholas Hadgraft Scholarship. Offered in memory of Dr Nicholas Hadgraft, a good friend of Conservation by Design Limited who died tragically in 2004, this annual scholarship provides the recipient with the opportunity to gain new skills and meet like-minded professionals at the Montefiascone Book Conservation Summer School organised by Cheryl Porter, a unique bookbinding course held each year in the medieval town of Montefiascone, Italy.
Please click here to download the 2012 applciation form (opens in new window).
You can find out more by visiting www.monteproject.com (opens in new window).
Previous Winners
CXD Workshop
Since 2007 CXD are also proud to have supported and organised a unique workshop on the principles and practice of handmade papermaking and paper covered bookbinding in France. Working with Jacques Brejoux and Christopher Clarkson, two of the industry’s leading scholars and craftsmen, this residential workshop is located at the 16th Century Moulin du Verger Paper Mill in Puymoyen, located in the beautiful Charente (Cognac) region of France and delegates have travelled from all over the world to take up this exceptional opportunity.
For more information, please click here to view a downloadable PDF (opens in new window)
To view or download an application form, please click here (opens in new window).
Jacques Bréjoux,
‘Medieval stampers: their construction and use in pulp preparation for hand papermaking’
The Moulin du Verger papermill was founded in 1539, and is one of the few working papermills still producing handmade paper using traditional methods. On the banks of the Valée des Eaux Claires near Angoulême, the mill buildings date to 1635, and in 2009, after 30 years exploring the craft of papermaking, papermaker Jacques Bréjoux commissioned a full size set of medieval stampers for the mill, to prepare pulp in the traditional manner.
More information on this course is available by downloading this PDF.