Conservation: Korean lacquer

Senior Furniture Conservator Dana Melchar discusses working with lacquer conservators from Korea and learning about the specialist techniques that they used in the original production of these objects.
Discover more about our Korean collection: www.vam.ac.uk/...

[@TheOnlyDamien]

This is really fascinating, I hope one day if possible y'all can make a video more on the techniques used and how they are unique to Korean Lacquer and what makes them different to normal techniques etc as I find it really interesting and it never hurts to spread the knowledge!

[@rhijulbec1]

My thought exactly.
Jenn 💖 in Canada 🍁

[@rhijulbec1]

I want to see SO much more of this! Please.
Jenn 💖 in Canada 🍁

[@susanmcgrath6664]

What is the Conservator using to clean the lacquer?

[@Desi-qw9fc]

Why aren’t the Korean conservators talking in this segment?

[@plips71755]

I assume you mean why we can’t hear them - but we don’t hear the non Koreans either - and in some places not the speaker as they are just filming them collaborating. If you mean why are they not speaking on a Korean subject versus a white woman - maybe it’s her video, or her department that she manages, or maybe she is the group’s spokesperson. Seems like sorta of a weird question and without really knowing where your thoughts are - many videos of this type may have lots of folks in the video doing something in and around the activity, but they don’t speak. Say a video on glass blowing - just the main artist speaks but not any of the crew who are working just as hard but they aren’t the artist being interviewed or featured. Same with a gallery doing a show with many works being displayed - the gallery owner or manager might be doing a video showing each group of works but each artist wouldn’t be speaking - unless it’s an artist interview video. Hope that makes sense.