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Lecture: ‘Classification of dyes and colorstuff’ at the IPCE
A wide variety of products providing colour to leather and paper are often imprecisely categorized. A correct classification contributes to a better understanding of the their features and is therefore useful both in the recognition in the materials eligible for conservation, as well as in the application of dyes and colourstuff for a proper in-paint and retouch. The dyes and colorants will be discussed according to the most common classifications: pigment based or not, natural/synthetic and, above all, their substantivity: direct, ionic, reactive and complex.
Mrs. Daydí Pastel portrait by Fèlix Mestres
Conservation of pastel drawing on paper and cardboard by Spanish painter Felix Mestres. Portrait of Mrs. Carolina Daydí. Dry cleaning, mould removal with HEPA vacuuming, in-painting of foxing stains.
Workshop: Match your Infill (The Hague, 2024)
Techniques, materials and products to infill and in-paint. Mould casting of textures (either acrylic or cellulose powdered based), matching colour with paper pulp, dyes and colorants, colour, digital retouch, tips and tricks for retouching.
Lecture: ‘Diving in wet treatments’ 2nd edition (IPCE).
First edition of the confernces cicle Re-Enpapelamos was held solely in-person. This year it is repeated free and on-line. ¿Which are the main benefits of bathing? ¿Do wet treatments justify the potential drawbacks involved in them? Let's see it in four diverese artefacts, washed from least to major degree: a pencil drawing, a gouache and two hand-coloured manuscripts.
Tailored workshop: Stain removal, suction table and infilling with paper pulp
Tailored paper conservation workshop for book and paper conservators from Twin Doves Bindery Ltd. (Canada). It includes theoretical and practical sessions, stain removal, stamp removal and infilling with casted paper pulp (manually and in suction table).
Course: Match your infill (London, 2024)
Techniques, materials and products to infill and in-paint. Mould casting of textures (either acrylic or cellulose powdered based), matching colour with paper pulp, dyes and colorants, colour, digital retouch, tips and tricks for retouching.
Course: Match your infill (Tartu, 2024)
Techniques, materials and products to infill and in-paint. Mould casting of textures (either acrylic or cellulose powdered based), matching colour with paper pulp, dyes and colorants, colour, digital retouch, tips and tricks for retouching.
Map by Blaeu cartographers
Conservation of 17th c. map by Blaeu dutch cartographers, 1630 Hand coloured print with gouach and golden paint. It had kraft paper patches and discolouration caused mainly by light exposure. The conservation treatment consisted on dry cleaning, old repairs removal, wet cleaning (slanted capillary wash) and flattening.
Session: Use of paper pulp on paper conservation (Amsterdam, 2024)
Questions and answers session about the use of paper pulp in paper conservation. Dry application, wer, on suction table, manual and leaf-casting machine. Discussion of types and qualities, and how to adjust the colour.
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.
Woodblock print by Albrecht Dürer
Woodblock print "The holy trinity", by Dürer, 1511. Removal of recent patches, wet cleaning, chemical treatment, deacidification, tear mending and losses infilling.
Course: Match your infill (Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Foundation, 2023)
Techniques, materials and products to infill and in-paint. Techniques, materials and products to infill an in-paint. Use of micro-powdered cellulose in paper conservation, mould casting of textures (either acrylic or cellulose powdered based), matching colour with paper pulp, dyes and colorants, digital retouch, colour, tips and tricks for retouching.
Peasant Syndicate Book
Not all artefacts can be loaned for exhibition, either because they are very damaged or very valuable. The facsimile is a very good alternative in these cases. Reproduction of the limp parchment binding with long-stitch sewing and the laid paper textblock.
Course: Match your infill (Prague, 2023)
Techniques, materials and products to infill and in-paint. Techniques, materials and products to infill an in-paint. Use of micro-powdered cellulose in paper conservation, mould casting of textures (either acrylic or cellulose powdered based), matching colour with paper pulp, dyes and colorants, digital retouch, colour, tips and tricks for retouching.
Course: Match your Infill (Art Institute of Chicago, 2023)
Techniques, materials and products to infill and in-paint. Techniques, materials and products to infill an in-paint. Use of micro-powdered cellulose in paper conservation, mould casting of textures (either acrylic or cellulose powdered based), matching colour with paper pulp, dyes and colorants, digital retouch, colour, tips and tricks for retouching.
Course: Match your infill (València, 2023)
Techniques, materials and products to infill and in-paint. Techniques, materials and products to infill an in-paint. Use of micro-powdered cellulose in paper conservation, mould casting of textures (either acrylic or cellulose powdered based), matching colour with paper pulp, dyes and colorants, digital retouch, colour, tips and tricks for retouching.
Course: Match your infill (Leiden, 2023)
Techniques, materials and products to infill and in-paint. Mould casting of textures (either acrylic or cellulose powdered based), matching colour with paper pulp, dyes and colorants, colour, digital retouch, tips and tricks for retouching.
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.
Course: Identificaction, conservation and preservation of photographs (Oslo, 2022)
Workshop with theoretic and practical sessions. Organization: National Museum (Oslo, Norway). Language: English. Dates: December 6-7th, 2022. Audience: Professional paper and photographs conservators.
Conservation of Game-Boy box
Original box for Game-Boy by Nintendo with wrinkles, tears, and pressure-sensitive label. Minimize as much as possible the damages and remove the price label.
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artwork on paper
drawings
maps, plans (architectural drawings)
posters
board or paper artefacts
books
albums
bindings conservation
codexs
fragmentology (membra disjecta)
recycled binding
incunabula
limp parchment binding
paperback books
sewn unsupported with drawn-on covers
stationery bindings
documents
holdings (archive/library)
oversized
photographs
albumens
daguerreotypes
silver-gelatin
glass-plates
silver-gelatine paper photographs
COURSES
book conservation
housing, mounting and framing paper artworks
introduction to paper conservation
Matching infills & retouching
photograph conservation
tailored conservation course
wet treatments
DISSEMINATION/RESEARCH
MATERIALS
TECHNIQUE
ball-point pen
charcoal, pastel
cyclostiled
felt-tip pen
gouache
graphite, pencil
ink
manuscripts
prints
engraving
lithograph
watercolor
woodcut
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