• Owner: Youth Documentary Center – Direcció General de Joventut. Generalitat de Catalunya (catalan government).
• Artefact: Joan Ballester Collection, paperback books (or perfect bound books) about boy-scouts movement (s.XIX-XX).
• Damages: Broken spines, loose leaves and covers. Other damages due to use and age.
• Intervention: Reinforcing structural damages. Cleaning and deacidification of covers. Restitution of broken sewings.
• Restorers: Laura Corso, Rita Udina.

Left: Before restoration. Loose covers due to spine failure.  Right: after restoration.

Left: Paper covers during wet cleaning and deacidification. Right: Covers after sizing and mending.

Left: Books with reinforced sewing and new hollow-back support. Right: mounting the book on the restored covers.

Before conservation. The central scotch tape causes tensions that prevent its natural moisturizing, therefore form wrinkles al along. After removing sellotapes the paper swells and shrinks evenly, without wrinkles.
Brochure printed on coated paper. Digital photomontage (before / after).

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