Eliza Jacobi | Restauratie Nijhoff Asser

Paper butterflies

by Eliza Jacobi | Jan 7, 2016 | 3D objects, Portfolio

These beautiful paper butterflies are almost indistinguishable from real ones. The paper wings in the 19th century, painted by hand. The butterfly enclosure belongs to the collection of the Boerhaave Museum in Leiden. All butterflies stuck with pins in the wooden...

The Leo Haks collection: Balinese drawings

by Eliza Jacobi | Jan 7, 2016 | paper conservation, Portfolio

Leo Haks gathered as one of the first pre-war, modern Balinese drawings. The damaged part of his collection he showed by restoring us in 2009-2010 before he left auction his collection of drawings in Singapore. The drawing shown here was created by Ida Bagus Nyoman...

Parchment charters and wax seals

by Eliza Jacobi | Jan 7, 2016 | Parchment conservation, Portfolio

With some regularity we preserve and restore charter collections. Often, they are folded up, have a lot of surface dirt and their attached wax seals are damaged. We house the charters in the so called ‘standard 3-d charter storage’. Restoration Firstly, we...

the Dollhouse of Lita de Ranitz

by Eliza Jacobi | Jan 7, 2016 | 3D objects, Portfolio

In 2013 we commissioned by the Hague Historical Museum and in cooperation with wood, glass, textile restorers and the interior and exterior of the dollhouse restored. This dollhouse is a display cabinet with six rooms that give a very detailed image of a Hague villa...

A collection Herbariums of the National herbarium Leiden

by Eliza Jacobi | Jan 7, 2016 | Book conservation, Portfolio

The restoration and conservation of herbaria in three phases During the first phase, 25 Japanese book herbaria restored. Philipp Franz von Siebold (1796-1866) she received during his stay at Deshima in Japan between 1823 and 1830 from his Japanese colleagues and...