{"id":2573,"date":"2025-10-16T17:07:33","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T17:07:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beatlesfansunite.com\/?p=2573"},"modified":"2025-10-21T16:04:01","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T16:04:01","slug":"dive-into-the-painstaking-process-of-restoring-an-18th-century-fan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.beatlesfansunite.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/16\/dive-into-the-painstaking-process-of-restoring-an-18th-century-fan\/","title":{"rendered":"Dive into the Painstaking Process of Restoring an 18th-Century Fan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" alt=\"Dive into the Painstaking Process of Restoring an 18th-Century Fan\" class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.beatlesfansunite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/fan-2.jpg\"><\/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<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Conserving a Delicate 18th-Century Fan | Museum Conservation Behind the Scenes\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qD33onZYeK4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1135\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" alt=\"a detail image of an 18th century fan\" class=\"wp-image-463874 lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.beatlesfansunite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/fan.jpg\"><\/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>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Armed with tweezers, a porcupine quill, and more patience than most of us could fathom, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2575,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.beatlesfansunite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2573"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.beatlesfansunite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.beatlesfansunite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.beatlesfansunite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.beatlesfansunite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2573"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.beatlesfansunite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2578,"href":"http:\/\/www.beatlesfansunite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2573\/revisions\/2578"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.beatlesfansunite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.beatlesfansunite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.beatlesfansunite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.beatlesfansunite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}