Naoko Takagi received her degree in paper conservation at Camberwell College of Arts, University of Arts London. She set up the first Paper Conservation Studio at the 100-year-old Maritime Museum in Istanbul, Turkey, 7 years ago, where she still works as Senior Conservator. Every summer she spends about 2 months in Kathmandu working voluntarily as a conservator.

Yoriko Chudo is a paper conservator specialising in ancient Oriental scrolls and rare paintings who received her MA in paper conservation at Camberwell College of Arts, University of Arts London. Her most recent project was the conservation of the Tibetan Esoteric Buddhist material from the Dunhuang Cave Temples in the Stein Collection. Since 1999 she has worked on and off as an International Dunhuang Project Contract Conservator in the British Library.

Reiko Maeda was trained in Bookbinding and Conservation in Japan and Germany in addition attending courses in England. At present she works as a conservator in Ishikawa Kindai Bungaku Kan in Japan. She is also an associate lecturer in bookbinding for the Musashino Art University (Tokyo) distance learning course.