Paper Conservation
Collection by Charlotte Nickels • Last updated 3 weeks ago
THE ART WHISPERER
Meet my friend Adrianna. You might have met her briefly before here. Besides being an avid and skillful photographer she is (almost) a fully qualified Art Conservator and works for the National Lib…
THE ART WHISPERER
Meet my friend Adrianna. You might have met her briefly before here. Besides being an avid and skillful photographer she is (almost) a fully qualified Art Conservator and works for the National Lib…
Conserving Gaelic Manuscripts for Digitisation
A significant 18th century collection of Gaelic song is held in the University of Glasgow Library. The Rev. James McLagan (1728–1805) amassed over 600 works, many of which he transcribed from conte…
The Thinnest Paper in the World
The Thinnest Paper in the World - The New York Times
The memory hunters
If you had 60 seconds inside your home before it was set to be destroyed, what would you grab? Jewellery perhaps, or a beloved childhood toy, but for many people there is nothing as priceless as a family photo.
Hidden treasures: Encounters with binder's waste in Stanford Libraries Conservation Department
Sophocles’ trageodiae septem… [Haguenau, France: Ex officina Seceriana, 1534] (Stanford Libraries Department of Special Collections PA4413 .A2 1534).
The Ins & Outs of Iron Gall Ink | American Philosophical Society
The Ins & Outs of Iron Gall Ink
The Scottish Conservation Studio
Home - The Scottish Conservation Studio
Caring for Drawings
Caring for Drawings - Victoria and Albert Museum
Conservation of an anatomical model of a horse by dr. AuzouxConservation of a paper-mache anatomical horse by Dr. AuzouxConservation of an anatomical model of a horse by dr. Auzoux - Studio Papier
In recent months I have been working on a special project. I restored an anatomical model of a horse from the 19th century by Dr. Auzoux.
A gargantuan challenge: washing and buffering enormous pages — on a shoestring
By Elizabeth Fagg-Shuttlewood The reality of conservation is that while there are some amazing pieces of expensive equipment available to big institutions with big budgets, many conservators work f…
Decisions and Methods: Washing a 19th-Century Oversized Watercolour
A Bit of Context My final project for the MA Conservation at Camberwell College of Arts was the conservation of a nineteenth-century watercolour depicting Elphinstone College in Mumbai, by the Brit…
Conservation Tales: The beginnings of the Endband – Dorset History Centre blog
Conservation Tales: The beginnings of the Endband – Dorset History Centre blog
Decisions and Methods: Washing a 19th-Century Oversized Watercolour
A Bit of Context My final project for the MA Conservation at Camberwell College of Arts was the conservation of a nineteenth-century watercolour depicting Elphinstone College in Mumbai, by the Brit…
Edgar Degas | Woman Having Her Hair Combed | The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Precious Powder: The Fragility of Degas's Pastels | The Metropolitan Museum of Art