Tailored workshop: Stain removal, suction table and infilling with paper pulp

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  • Beneficiary: Twin Doves Bindery Ltd. (Vancouver island, Canada).
  • Course Title: Stain removal and infilling with leaf casted paper pulp
  • Project: Custom tuition with hands-on and theoretical sessions.
  • Teacher: Rita Udina.
  • Organisation: Rita Udina.
  • Contents (theory and practice):
    • Stain removal, techniques and possibilities: Tape removal, solvents, local cleaning with and without suction table, wet cleaning with chemical agents (deacidification, chelators and other).
    • Stamp removal and fugitive inks fixation. Chemical and physical fixatives. Application techniques: brush, kitska, suction table.
    • Infilling with leaf-casted paper pulp. Matching colour, dry infilling, infilling in suction table and hand-made leaf-casting.
  • Venue: Conservation lab (Premià de Mar, Barcelona).
  • Language: English.
  • Dates: July 23-25th, 2024.
  • Duration: 3 days (19,5 hours).
  • Audience: Book and paper conservators in practice.
  • Other links: Instagram reel, YouTube short (below), Instagram post (below).
Soluble inks fixation with cyclododecane and Kitska
Paper conservation: Stain removal on the suction table.
Residues from chemical wet cleaning for removing paper discolouration in paper conservation.
Matched colour for paper pulp for leaf-casting or regular infills and losses.
Wet cleaning test: regular and chemical chelating treatment
Infilling under transmitted light with leaf-casted paper pulp
Tailored paper conservation course for Tom McCabe (right) and Christin Reider (left), conservators from Twin Doves Bindery (Canada)

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AHEH (10) Alcon-Cusi Pharmacy Museum (5) Archive Barcelona Sants-Montjuïc Dst. (5) Archives (50) Ayuntamiento Barcelona (5) Barcelona City Council (11) Barcelona Municipal Archive (9) Buat Fine Art (3) CoAC (Association of Architects of Catalonia) (15) Cores (5) Documentation Center of Catalan Orfeó (3) Domènech i Montaner (5) Gaboche Ars (3) Galleries (24) Government of Catalonia (19) Historical Archive of Barcelona (3) Historical Archive of Lleida (4) ICON (4) Industrial Museum of Ter (4) Institute for Cultural Heritage of Spain (IPCE) (6) INTACH (Dehli) (7) La Pedrera Foundation (4) Laura Corso (3) Libraries (29) Municipal Archive of Renteria (5) Museums (26) Márk Somogyi (3) National Archive of Catalonia (ANC) (8) National Museum of Norway (4) NSK - National Library and University (Zagreb CROATIA) (5) onLine (14) private collector (26) Provincial Council of Barcelona (DiBa) (5) Public Library of Girona Carles Rahola (7) Regional Archive Baix Ebre (3) Regional Archive of Vallès Occidental (4) Regional Archive Urgell (4) Research Library of Dubrovnik (CROATIA) (4) Restauratoren Nederland (5) Rijksmuseum (5) Sant Cugat del Vallès Council (5) SICP Chile (3) Sitges Museums (4) Tapestry Art Centre Grau Garriga (5) University of Granada (Spain) (4)

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Tailored workshop: Stain removal, suction table and infilling with paper pulp

COURSES, WORKSHOPS →
Tailored courses →

  • Beneficiary: Twin Doves Bindery Ltd. (Vancouver island, Canada).
  • Course Title: Stain removal and infilling with leaf casted paper pulp
  • Project: Custom tuition with hands-on and theoretical sessions.
  • Teacher: Rita Udina.
  • Organisation: Rita Udina.
  • Contents (theory and practice):
    • Stain removal, techniques and possibilities: Tape removal, solvents, local cleaning with and without suction table, wet cleaning with chemical agents (deacidification, chelators and other).
    • Stamp removal and fugitive inks fixation. Chemical and physical fixatives. Application techniques: brush, kitska, suction table.
    • Infilling with leaf-casted paper pulp. Matching colour, dry infilling, infilling in suction table and hand-made leaf-casting.
  • Venue: Conservation lab (Premià de Mar, Barcelona).
  • Language: English.
  • Dates: July 23-25th, 2024.
  • Duration: 3 days (19,5 hours).
  • Audience: Book and paper conservators in practice.
  • Other links: Instagram reel, YouTube short (below), Instagram post (below).
Soluble inks fixation with cyclododecane and Kitska
Paper conservation: Stain removal on the suction table.
Residues from chemical wet cleaning for removing paper discolouration in paper conservation.
Matched colour for paper pulp for leaf-casting or regular infills and losses.
Wet cleaning test: regular and chemical chelating treatment
Infilling under transmitted light with leaf-casted paper pulp
Tailored paper conservation course for Tom McCabe (right) and Christin Reider (left), conservators from Twin Doves Bindery (Canada)

Related workshops:

Clients

AHEH (10) Alcon-Cusi Pharmacy Museum (5) Archive Barcelona Sants-Montjuïc Dst. (5) Archives (50) Ayuntamiento Barcelona (5) Barcelona City Council (11) Barcelona Municipal Archive (9) Buat Fine Art (3) CoAC (Association of Architects of Catalonia) (15) Cores (5) Documentation Center of Catalan Orfeó (3) Domènech i Montaner (5) Gaboche Ars (3) Galleries (24) Government of Catalonia (19) Historical Archive of Barcelona (3) Historical Archive of Lleida (4) ICON (4) Industrial Museum of Ter (4) Institute for Cultural Heritage of Spain (IPCE) (6) INTACH (Dehli) (7) La Pedrera Foundation (4) Laura Corso (3) Libraries (29) Municipal Archive of Renteria (5) Museums (26) Márk Somogyi (3) National Archive of Catalonia (ANC) (8) National Museum of Norway (4) NSK - National Library and University (Zagreb CROATIA) (5) onLine (14) private collector (26) Provincial Council of Barcelona (DiBa) (5) Public Library of Girona Carles Rahola (7) Regional Archive Baix Ebre (3) Regional Archive of Vallès Occidental (4) Regional Archive Urgell (4) Research Library of Dubrovnik (CROATIA) (4) Restauratoren Nederland (5) Rijksmuseum (5) Sant Cugat del Vallès Council (5) SICP Chile (3) Sitges Museums (4) Tapestry Art Centre Grau Garriga (5) University of Granada (Spain) (4)

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