manuscripts
Find below the portfolio projects related to manuscripts:
Pencil drawing by J.A.D. Ingres
Conservation of pencil drawing by J.A.D. Ingres. Pencil drawing on woven paper with discolouration and foxing stains, tears, insect depositions. Dry cleaning, mechanical removal of depositions, wet cleaning, chemical treatment and reinforcement.
Conservation of plan on natural tracing paper
Proudly showcasing the conservation treatment of such a stubborn tracing paper: folds and wrinkles appear white due to loss of translucency. Before and after photos are taken with a black background, so that you can judge the results on the whitish parts.
Conservation of varnished map
Conservation of an oversized map, varnished and with a linen backing, dated 1906. Varnish removal with gels, backing removal, capillary washing, tear mending, infilling, lining, flattening, retouch, varnishing and finishing (tapes and slats on edges).
Conservation of cartoon drawing by Quino
Conservation and flattening of a cartoon drawing by Quino using the same paper for the infill of the loss.
Workshop: Wet treatments of
Works on Paper (Amsterdam, 2021)
Theoretical and practical sessions. When to apply wet treatments on paper, and how. From the basis of handling wet paper to more complex moisturizing, humidification and washing techniques. Fugitivity tests, types of inks and their properties, and many case studies to show conservation treatments on real artwork: manuscripts and documents, drawings, watercolours, pastels, charcoal drawings...
Conservation of gouache and watercolour drawing on paper
Conservation of a china ink, pencil, watercolour and gouache drawing with severe discolouration due to light exposure. Dry cleaning, wash cleaning, deacidification, light bleaching, inpainting of light areas and flattening.
Workshop: Wet treatments
of Works on Paper (Köln, 2021)
Theoretical and practical sessions. When to apply wet treatments on paper, and how. From the basis of handling wet paper to more complex moisturizing, humidification and washing techniques. Fugitivity tests, types of inks and their properties, and many case studies to show conservation treatments on real artwork: manuscripts and documents, drawings, watercolours, pastels, charcoal drawings...
Conservation of cartoon drawing of a packed tram
Conservation of a china ink, pencil, watercolour and gouache drawing with severe discolouration due to light exposure. Dry cleaning, wash cleaning, deacidification, light bleaching and flattening.
Assessment on the conservation of Swamiji’s manuscripts
Assessment on preventive conservation, housing, storage, digitization, exhibition and possibilities of conservation of Swamiji's manuscripts from Vedanta Academy historical archive.
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.
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: ‘Impregnated Tracing Paper Conservation’ (ICON Book & Paper)
Three study cases of conservation of impregnated tracing paper, with diverse approach
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.
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.
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.
Conservation of stationery limp vellum bindings with flap
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