ARTEFACT
Find below the portfolio projects related to ARTEFACT:
Workshop: Introduction to paper conservation (Sentmenat, 2020)
Introductory workshop to paper conservation (International Archives Day).
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.
Workshop: Housing and Mounting Photographs for Exhibition (Barcelona, 2019)
Practice and theory session in which we'll see different materials related to housing and framing for the exhibition of photographs: adhesives, boards, cardboards, folders, plastics, glasses, sealing foils, passe-partouts... We'll speak about reversibility, "acid-free" and "archival" products and much more!
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.
Conservation of stationery limp vellum bindings with flap
Owner: Regional Archive of Baix [...]
Lecture: “A possible solution for paperback bindings” (ICPWH, Sarajevo)
Event: First International Conference on [...]
Workshop: Introduction to paper conservation (International Archives Day)
Introductory workshop to paper conservation (International Archives Day).
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
Conservation of a gouache and pastel drawing on impregnated tracing paper. Preliminary technical drawing, a design for a tapestry.
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 architectural drawings on tracing paper, by Fernando Higueras
Owner: Association of Architects of [...]
Workshop: Housing and Mounting Photographs for Exhibition (Barcelona, 2019)
Practice and theory session in which we'll see different materials related to housing and framing for the exhibition of photographs: adhesives, boards, cardboards, folders, plastics, glasses, sealing foils, passe-partouts... We'll speak about reversibility, "acid-free" and "archival" products and much more!
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.
Conservation of parchment mansucript with woven repairs
[translation pending] Beneficiari: Arxiu [...]
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. Only afterwards it is possible to make the proper diagnosis of damage, in order to proceed to the repair practice.
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
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
"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).
Conservation of limp laced-case vellum binding with boards
Owner: Private collection. Artefact: [...]
