conservation
Find below the portfolio projects related to conservation:
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.
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.
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.
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
We are quite proud of this treatment since tracing paper is most rebel: folds and tears are most visible because of their lack of translucency. We've taken the before and after images on a black background so that you can judge the results.
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.
Course: Inpainting and Loss Compensation on Paper Conservation (Oslo, 2022)
Techniques, materials and products to infill and in-paint. Use of micro-powdered cellulose in paper conservation, mould casting of textures, matching colour with paper pulp, dyes and colorants, colour, light, tools, criteria, un-restoration, digital retouch, tips and tricks for retouching.
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 rennaisance astronomy book. A stiff board parchment binding with slotted spine
Conservation of rennaisance astronomy book. Conservation of stiff-board reverse parchment binding with slotted spine. Clavius was a reputated astronomer, contemporary to Galileo Galilei.
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.
Tailored workshop: Photographs, carte-de-visite and autographs conservation (Premià, 2022)
Tailored workshop: Conservation of photographs, cdv and autographs. General treatments (dry cleaning, tear repair, flattening). Chemical aspects of conservation (deacidification, chelating agents).
Lecture: Sewing, adhesion and grain direction in book conservation
Event: AIC 50th Annual Meeting, [...]
Lecture: ‘Conservation of recycled bindings and fragmentology’ (Parts 1 & 2), SICP Chile
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 are studied.
