Jana Dambrogio, Thomas F. Peterson Jr. (1957) Conservator
| Jan/06 | Wed | 10:00AM-12:00PM | 14-0513 |
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/05
Limited to 10 participants
Prereq: NA
Queen Elizabeth the First did it. Marie Antoinette did it, too. And so did William Barton Rogers.
Come spend a morning in the MIT Libraries Wunsch Conservation lab with Jana Dambrogio, the Thomas F. Peterson Jr. (1957) conservator and letterlocker-in-residence, learning about the 4,000-year-old tradition of writing a letter on papyrus, parchment, or paper and folding it to function as its own envelope.
Participants will make several types of locked letters with varying levels of built-in security based on historic examples. They will view historic manuscripts and learn how conservators preserve them.
If you identify yourself as an origami maker, paper engineer, letter-writer, secret keeper, or anti-tamper device master, this is the course for you.
Course size: 10
10:00 am-12:00 pm
Offered: one morning session.
When: Wednesday, January 6
Sponsor(s): Libraries
Contact: Jana Dambrogio, 14-0513, 617 452-4064, JLD@MIT.EDU