2020
Find below the portfolio projects related to 2020:
Conservation of oversized Adami drawings from Musée Jean Cocteau
Conservation of oversized casein drawings by Valerio Adami with stains caused by a flood. Slanted capillary washing, flattening, mending and conservation mounting.
Conservation of long-stitched limp binding with rolled sewing
That's the typical case of waste material (a former parchment manuscript) that was recycled for a new purpose (a binding).
Conservation of recycled limp vellum wallet binding
Conservation of a medieval manuscript on laid paper, bound on limp parchment. The binding is recicled, being a former wallet bindinig with a flap. The turnins of the covers have alum tawed leather tackets. Sewn on the binding.
Video about the profession of book and paper conservator
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. The video 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.
Conservation of a manuscript with one binding inside the other
It is not uncommon to find waste material as part of a binding (parchment manuscripts, for instance), but quite much rare when the previous and original binding is part of the boards layers of the current recycled binding! The outer and visible binding belonged first to a former book, and the hidden binding, to the current, one... crazy!
Lecture: ‘Sew it, rather than paste it!’
(ERC Conference, Krems)
Event: Conference Book Conservation: One [...]
Conservation of racing cars poster
A lithograph by Spanish painter Cidón, dated 1922
Conservation of a ithographic print from 1922, a poster of the 2nd edition of the car race "Armangué Trophy", organized by the Royal Motorcycle Club of Catalonia.
Lecture: ‘Reversibility
in book and paper conservation’ (INTACH, Dehli)
Event: INTACH lectures (#52). Organization: [...]
Lecture: ‘Impregnated Tracing Paper Conservation’ (ICON Book & Paper)
Three study cases of conservation of impregnated tracing paper, with diverse approach
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.
Stop-motion video of a paper conservation treatment
A lockdown is kind of stoping any activity, and that is what I have done, a stop-motion video, showing the full conservation treatment of a paper document.
Lecture: “Conservation of Impregnated Tracing Paper” (Papers at the balcony, Granada)
Three study cases of conservation treatment of impregnated tracing paper with three diverse approaches.
Housing and Mounting Photographs for Exhibition (Barcelona, 2020)
Practice and theory session in which we'll see different materials related to housing and framing for the exhibition of photographs: adhesives, boards, cardboards, folders, plastics, glasses, sealing foils, passe-partouts... We'll speak about reversibility, "acid-free" and "archival" products and much more!
Impregnated tracing paper with tapes and ball-point pen inscription
Conservation of pencil architectural drawing on impregnated tracing paper, with a ball-point pen inscription, pressure-sensitive tapes and stuck onto a board. Drawing by catalan architect Lluís Domènech i Montaner.
Workshop: Introduction to paper conservation (Sentmenat, 2020)
Introductory workshop to paper conservation (International Archives Day).
Conservation of medieval manuscripts on rag paper with rolled sewing
Conservation of two medieval manuscripts on rag paper and limp vellum binding. The sewing thread is made of rolled parchment, sewn with independent knots onto inner parchment stays. One of them onto outer leather tackets as well.
