Now in its third year, the scholarship awards £1000 towards the cost of attending the Montefiascone Book Conservation Summer School, a unique bookbinding course held each year in the medieval town of Montefiascone, Italy.

Conservation By Design managing director, Mike Brown said: “We have had more applicants this year than ever before and the quality of submissions was exceptionally high. We chose Alexandrea because we were particularly impressed with her enthusiasm, passion for bookbinding and obvious dedication to increasing her knowledge and skills.”

Alexandrea intends to use her scholarship to attend two courses at the Summer School at the end of August, ‘The Armenian Manuscript’ and ‘Medieval Arab book bindings in Spain: History, structure, materials and decoration’.

She said: “For me, bookbinding has become both a passion and a challenge and I am thrilled to be offered this amazing opportunity to study at the Montefiascone School. The courses will help me to develop new skills and expertise which will be particularly beneficial to my career in conservation.

“I am extremely grateful to Conservation By Design for awarding me the scholarship and I’m very excited about going out to Montefiascone.”

For further information on the Nicholas Hadgraft Memorial Scholarship, contact Conservation By Design on 01234 844 260
or visit www.conservation-by-design.co.uk.

Further details on The Montefiascone Project can be found at the website: http://www.monteproject.com

Note:
The scholarship is offered in memory of Dr Nicholas Hadgraft, a good friend of Conservation By Design who died tragically in 2004. Nicholas was a fellow of the University of the Arts London and a key collaborator on the “Squelch Drying” technique devised by Stuart Welch ( the founder of CXD), the most effective way to date of drying valuable rare books.

For more information contact:
Denise Troughton
Tel: 01234 844 260/ 07817 518 250
Email: denise.troughton@conservation-by-design.co.uk