Libraries
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Lecture: Sewing, adhesion and grain direction in book conservation
Event: AIC 50th Annual Meeting, [...]
Lecture: ‘Conservation of recycled bindings and fragmentology’ (Parts 1 & 2), SICP Chile
Book conservation involves a tough decision making regarding usability and long term preservation handling. Sometimes we are dealing with fragmentology, or disjecta membra (fragments of written supports are re-used as part of a binding, with a diverse purpose from the first use) whereas in other cases the purpose is the same, and the whole binding is being recycled to bind a different book. Incunabula and manuscripts with laced-case and limp vellum bindings are studied.
Lecture: ‘Conservation of reused bindings’ (Part two), Dubrovnik
Book conservation involves a tough decision making regarding usability and long term preservation handling. Sometimes we are dealing with fragmentology, or disjecta membra (fragments of written supports are re-used as part of a binding, with a diverse purpose from the first use) whereas in other cases the purpose is the same, and the whole binding is being recycled to bind a different book. Incunabula and manuscripts with laced-case and limp vellum bindings are studied.
Lecture: ‘Conservation of re-used bindings’ (part one), Zagreb
Book conservation involves a tough decision making regarding usability and long term preservation handling. Sometimes we are dealing with fragmentology, or disjecta membra (fragments of written supports are re-used as part of a binding, with a diverse purpose from the first use) whereas in other cases the purpose is the same, and the whole binding is being recycled to bind a different book. Incunabula and manuscripts with laced-case and limp vellum bindings with rolled sewing on parchment are studied.
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.
Lecture: ‘Sew it, rather than paste it!’
(ERC Conference, Krems)
Event: Conference Book Conservation: One [...]
Lecture: ‘Reversibility
in book and paper conservation’ (INTACH, Dehli)
Event: INTACH lectures (#52). Organization: [...]
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.
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. Workshop with theoretic and practical sessions.
Lecture: “A possible solution for paperback bindings” (ICPWH, Sarajevo)
Event: First International Conference on [...]
Technical translation English → Spanish
Client: Apache. Project: Technical translation from [...]
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.
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 [...]
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.
Conservation of limp laced-case vellum binding with boards
Owner: Private collection. Artefact: [...]
Facsimile of the first Pharmacy graduation photograph (University of Barcelona, 1901)
What is a facsimile and what is it used for? Is it a forgery? Why the graduation photographs of the first pharmacists generation was mutilated during the Spanish Civil War? Facsimiles, also known as original copies or reproductions, are a very good solution when we want to disseminate an artefact with restricted availability due to poor condition state or unique character.
