Textiles & Wood

We use a bespoke range of high-resolution cameras, offering non-contact capture of your textiles and wood collections. Our equipment can capture single page or double-page spreads creating output formats in TIFF, JPEG (JPEG2000), PDF (PDFA) or any other industry-standard image format you may require. We can also create further surrogate files, such as OCR’d multi-page PDFs, MS Word and eBooks.

All files are captured by our highly trained digitisation technicians using overhead, daylight balanced, non-heat producing lighting, before undergoing a formal quality assurance checking procedure. The final step in the process is the delivery of your electronic files by hard drive.

As standard, TWA survey all material prior to any digitisation project being carried out to ensure that it can withstand the scanning process. If there is evidence of fragility, brittleness, and/or mould, or any other signs of damage to your textiles or wood collections, then recommendations will be made for how to repair and stabilise the content appropriately.

Some textiles, such as cloth, can often be bound like a book and this can cause difficulties with getting the material completely flat and without any curvature casting shadows ontothe material and along the gutter. They can also be quite bulky and tricky items to handle, however, our specialist equipment can be adjusted to compensate.

We do offer a secure collection and delivery service and this is something many of our clients request. Your material is registered in and out by our experienced drivers, and transported in secure, insured vehicles. Safe packing, stacking and handling procedures are always observed and we guarantee that your material never leaves our sight, being immediately placed under safe conditions upon arrival.