Conservation is magical, bringing back to life books that seemed useless. A stop-motion video of a miniature library, whose books were bound by friends… is magical as well! ⭐🎄 Continue reading
Hands that shake friends’ hands, hands to hug and to love, hands that restore.
Hands that cannot be replaced…
Nor we wish to do so! Continue reading
What does a paper conservator do? Whom does she work for? What skills and knowledge does she ought to have?
Preservation and conservation, a field linked to science, history and arts and crafts. A video explains what differenciates us from forgers and shows -among other- how we produce a hand-made suction table to restore paper artifacts, with loads of creativity, a feature most necessary to become book and paper conservator. Continue reading
Sorolla sketches represent the spontaneity, the genius and the creative stage for its own right. Their conservation shares with them this essentiality, the minimal intervention character. The restoration has adopted japanese tools and techniques, a paper conservation at the most eastern style. Or not that utmost, since the Karibari was replaced by a wooden board. Eastern or western, the restoration of the gouache sketches has been truly remarkable, and you’ll have to read it to know why. Continue reading
Led by Luis Crespo and Arsenio Sanchez, restorerss in the National Library, we visit the fascinating world of book illuminated miniatures, choir books, manuscripts …
Latest technological resources, ancient tradition, and above all their experience and knowledge, allow the recovery of these bibliographic jewels exhibited now at the National Library of Spain. Continue reading
How we restorers motivate with crumpled tracing papers, beautiful papers… This restorer is thrilled with “crumpled ADLAN tracing papers” from CoAC archive, which went through my hands some years ago, and invites you to participate in its digitization. Continue reading