2018
Find below the portfolio projects related to 2018:
Lecture: ‘Diving in wet treatments’ 2nd edition (IPCE).
First edition of the confernces cicle Re-Enpapelamos was held solely in-person. This year it is repeated free and on-line. ¿Which are the main benefits of bathing? ¿Do wet treatments justify the potential drawbacks involved in them? Let’s see it in five diverse artefacts, washed from least to major degree: a pencil drawing, a gouache, two hand-coloured technical drawings on tracing paper and one pastel drawing.
Conservation, facsimile binding and dust jackets for Encyclopaedia
Some projects are extremely complex regarding the ethical professional decision making, and this is certainly one of the toughests! Rather than trimming the original beautiful bindings with marbled edges, some facsimile dust-jackets were made to protect the books, that were also restored preserving all their features.
Conservation of incunabula with fragmentology evidence
Conservation of incunabula books from Public Library Carles Rahola. Some have disjecta membra and a few cases of palimpsest bindings as well.
Conservation and housing of parchment manuscripts with sewn repairs
Owner: Can Pedrals Library (Granollers, [...]
Conservation of choir book, an oversized manuscript on parchment
Choir book, an oversized manuscript on parchment. The bookbinding is full leather on wooden boards with brass edges, as well as clasps, also in brass. 1634, renaissance style.
Conservation of parchment mansucript with woven repairs
[translation pending] Beneficiari: Arxiu [...]
Workshop: Conservation and repair of damaged books
Workshop in which we'll learn to look at books in order to understand their structure: case bound bindings, paperback, perfect bindings, with or without sewing, hard or soft covers, tight back or hollow spine. Only afterwards it is possible to make the proper diagnosis of damage, in order to proceed to the repair practice.
Course: “Inpainting & Loss Compensation on Paper Conservation” (Granada, 2018)
Inpainting and loss compensation on paper conservation. Workshop with theoretic and practical sessions. Organization: University of Granada. Language: Spanish. Dates: October 22-24th, 2018.
Course: Inpainting & Loss Compensation on Paper Conservation (Barcelona, 2018)
Techniques, materials and products to infill and in-paint. Use of micro-powdered cellulose in paper conservation, mould casting of textures (either acrylic or cellulose powdered based), matching colour with paper pulp, dyes and colorants, colour, light, tools, criteria, un-restoration, digital retouch, tips and tricks for retouching.
Exhibition “Art and Heritage: Preserving History”
Event: 20th Paper and Board [...]
Lecture ‘Diving in wet treatments’, first in-person edition (IPCE)
¿Which are the main benefits of bathing? ¿Do wet treatments justify the potential drawbacks involved in them? Let's see it in four diverese artefacts, washed from least to major degree: a pencil drawing, a gouache and two hand-coloured manuscripts.
Tàpies print: stain removal and light bleaching
Print conservation: Stain removal, deacidification and light bleaching, Lithoghraph by Antoni Tàpies.
Lecture: 20th anniversary of the conservation laboratory CRAI-UB
Event: 20th anniversary of the conservation [...]
Lecture: “Reversible vs Irreversible” (Cores Symposium, Brugge)
Event: Cores Symposium. Dilemmas: Between cherishing [...]
Course: Inpainting and Loss Compensation on Paper Conservation (Paris, 2018)
Techniques, materials and products to infill and in-paint. Use of micro-powdered cellulose in paper conservation, mould casting of textures, matching colour with paper pulp, dyes and colorants, colour, light, tools, criteria, un-restoration, digital retouch, tips and tricks for retouching.
Conservation of leather binding with an iron lock
Bound manuscript with lock inlay. Full leather renaissance binding with brass bosses and iron clasps. An iron inlay on both covers locks the book. It has blind tooling decoration (rectangles and flowers). Handwritten laid paper folios. It is a register of the builders working by that time in Barcelona (1766). Conservation treatment: Reinforcement of the structure (loose covers, broken thongs). Cleaning of the binding, fixing the stuck lock and conservation treatment of further metallic elements (clasps and bosses). Dry cleaning of folios and tear mending.
