Lime Mortars with Ray Wiltshire
25 October 2024
Ray Wiltshire is a highly knowledgeable and skilled Heritage Plasterer with many years’ experience in the industry.
Traditional Trades Events
We regularly host traditional trades events in partnership with practitioners to share, strengthen and celebrate their skills and knowledge. These workshops are an initiative of the National Trust of Australia (Victoria) to utilise our properties to demonstrate best conservation practice and create meaningful learning opportunities for trades, professionals and the general public.
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Recent Events
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Traditional Trades Exposition
23 & 24 November 2024
The Traditional Trades Exposition is an annual forum dedicated to the exchange of knowledge among practitioners. This event fosters discussions on conservation philosophy and processes by sharing experiences, successes, and failures.
Past Workshops
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Architectural Glazing and Glass Conservation
Led by Bruce Hutton, this workshop covered a history of glass and glazing, installation, decoration, maintenance and repair and also the application of linseed oil putty. The workshop also included a short house tour of Waller House.
Bruce Hutton founded Almond glass in 1994. He completed a Fine Arts Degree (Chisholm Institute of Technology) majoring in stained glass in 1988, he then went on to work in the industry both in Australia, England and South Africa. He completed a Postgraduate (Monash University) in 1996, focusing on the conservation and restoration techniques of stained glass.
Repointing Mortar Joints Workshop
Como House, South Yarra
Outcomes included familiarity with lime, sand and aggregate selection processes, practical awareness of materials preparation and use including tool handling and heritage philosophy as to the extent of pointing intervention
Timber and Sash Windows Workshop
Private workshop
This workshop covered an introduction to working with timber, a brief history of the sash window and an overview of the construction, installation and repair of sash windows. The session will ended with a Q and A with the instructor, Ian Goddard, who is a joiner with many years' experience both in Australia and the United Kingdom where he did his training.
Repointing and Masonry Workshop
Como House, South Yarra
This practical hands on workshop was focused on performing repointing and masonry repair to the east wall of the original coach house at Como House in South Yarra.
Architectural Finishes Workshop
Como House, South Yarra
This two day workshop covered a variety of areas relating to exterior finishes to heritage buildings, including architectural finishes investigation, understanding stucco, paint removal techniques, the conservation of stucco and re-finishing techniques. It was led by experts in the area including Conservation specialist Donald Ellsmore and plasterer Ray Wiltshire.
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