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Conservation of preliminary drawing for a tapestry: an oversized gouache on paper
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Conservation of preliminary drawing for a tapestry: an oversized gouache on paper

Conservation of preliminary drawing for a carpet, an oversized gouache on paper. Dry cleaning, backing with japanese tissue (washi). Flattening, loss compensation (in-painting).

Conservation of a gouache and pastel drawing on impregnated tracing paper
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Conservation of a gouache and pastel drawing on impregnated tracing paper

Conservation of a gouache and pastel drawing on impregnated tracing paper. Preliminary technical drawing, a design for a tapestry.

Conservation of architectural drawings on tracing paper, by Fernando Higueras
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Conservation of architectural drawings on tracing paper, by Fernando Higueras

Owner: Association of Architects of [...]

Conservation of parchment mansucript with woven repairs
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Conservation of parchment mansucript with woven repairs

[translation pending] Beneficiari: Arxiu [...]

Lecture ‘Diving in wet treatments’, first in-person edition (IPCE)
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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
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Tàpies print: stain removal and light bleaching

Print conservation: Stain removal, deacidification and light bleaching, Lithoghraph by Antoni Tàpies.

Conservation of leather binding with an iron lock
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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 gouache on paper, painting by Joan Ponç
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Conservation of gouache on paper, painting by Joan Ponç

"Gran Pastoral", gouache on paper, 83 x 112 cm. The artwork was lined on a Kraft paper with tapes and synthetic adhesives. It had losses and tears, and remarkable discolouration. The paper was extremely brittle. Tape and synthetic adhesives removal. Capillary wash and light bleaching, infilling of losses, lining, inpainting (mimetic criteria in the small ones, neutral color in the bigger ones).

Workshop “Paper, Leather and Photographs Conservation” (Sultanate of Oman)
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Workshop “Paper, Leather and Photographs Conservation” (Sultanate of Oman)

Course [...]

Russian posters conservation
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Russian posters conservation

Lithographic posters with communist propaganda, dating 1959. Author: Valentin Viktorof. Lithographs with severe folds, pressure-sensitive tapes, tears, dirt, slight cockling and paper losses. Conservation: Dry cleaninng, tape removal, wet cleaning and deacidification, consolidation (tears mending, gaps infilling, lining), flattening and inpainting.

Conservation of “The Disasters of War”, by Goya
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Conservation of “The Disasters of War”, by Goya

Conservation of the full series of prints "The disasters of War" by Spanish painter & engraver Goya. 80 etchings corresponding to the first edition. Wet cleaning, deacidification, flattening under tension, tear mending and repair and stain removal.