See, what did I tell you guys?!

If I had been alone on this project, I think I really would have started to lose it a little and begun imagining things.

Yes I am finally and officially on the blog!

Supposing I may have been Wendy's phantom partner at the museum? I have now proved her to be an honest woman.

The project feels as though it is going by very quickly. Wendy and I began to re-roll some of the Chinese rubbings on Monday, which proved to be quite a challenge. The largest piece, which was about 30 feet in length seems to be the most difficult to rehouse. We hope to find it a happy resting place (wish us luck and patience!)

Ya, Da, Da, Da, Da, Hey!

The Big One

30 feet of very thin paper.

We took a break from the re-rolling of the rubbings while the tubes are being cut to the appropriate sizes and delved into these boxes:

We found some goodies.

Custom Clam Shell

I had to leave today before I finishing this clam shell box for a very fragile Chinese scroll. I have a good feeling I'll be pleased with the results.

Thai Manuscripts with Paintings

The reason I took this photograph may not be the first thing you notice about the image. Check out the little penciled bird walking down the border of the painting.

Milestone

Today we moved all the drawer trays we have completed so far into the cabinet where they will be permanently housed. We were able to fit all of the Tibetan objects into one drawer, and lucky for us, there was one drawer left in the cabinet where the rest of the Tibetan objects are housed. The top drawer now has some Indian and Thai objects and one Japanese object. This drawer is followed by 7 drawers of Japanese scrolls. Below the scrolls are the remaining Japanese objects, which we were able to confine to one drawer also. The 3 remaining drawers will house the Chinese objects. Now we are ready to concentrate on organizing the rubbings which we hope to contain to Cabinet H.

More Rubbings

Challenges in the Tibetan Drawer

First clam shell box with loose sides. It was a lot easier to construct than I had thought.

Rubbings!

The time has come to address the issue of the over 100 rubbings in the drawers that will have to be re-rolled onto new supporting tubes.

Tiny Tibetan Scrolls

These were housed in individual plastic boxes which were too big and the scrolls tended to roll around a lot within them. They're such a lovely set, I decided to make a box that would keep them together and show them off a bit. I went a little overboard.




This looked good, but I was reminded that it's best to have a layer of Volara between the objects and whatever paperboard you are using, so...

There we have it.

No Touch-y

Just look.