leather
Find below the portfolio projects related to leather:
Conservation of renaisance astronomy book. A stiff board parchment binding with slotted spine
Conservation of rennaisance astronomy book. Conservation of stiff-board reverse parchment binding with slotted spine. Clavius was a reputated astronomer, contemporary to Galileo Galilei.
Conservation of Salvador Dalí’s “Peerless” suitcase
Suitcase owned by Salvador Dalí, brand "Peerless", made of wood, leather, fabric and metal. There's a boarding label dated 1948. Dry cleaning, stain, rust and fat removal.
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 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 books from INSPAI
Owner: INSPAI, Image Centre (Girona Provincial [...]
Conservation of periodicals from hemeroteca historical archive
Owner: Arxiu Històric de la [...]
