Alex Brooks Conservation

Very cool story about conserving and reconstructing a Civil War era navy coat. The most interesting part to me? It cost more then $20,000 to conserve the remains of this jacket - but it's the only one of it's kind that has survived - locked underwater for 150 years in the gun turret from the US warship monitor.... super cool.

http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-uss-monitor-20150111-story.html

Wool coat that sank with Civil War ironclad Monitor is nearly revived  More than 150 years after it sank off Cape Hatteras inside the warship Monitor, a woolen coat discarded by a Union sailor trying to escape the doomed Civil War ironclad is approaching another milestone.

the hand & steam department A short video about making boxes for a collection of special edition hardbound books by poet Nikky Finney. For details - http://nikkyfinney.net/books.html