1 What does a paper conservator conserve? A paper conservator is concerned mainly with books, archives and works of art on paper. There are sub-headings such as wallpaper, globes, fans, parchment and ...

What do you do? I am a paper conservator in a private studio [in Kirkland]. I take damaged works of art and I repair and restore them to bring them back to their original splendor. My work covers all ...

Paper conservation and heritage preservation are critical disciplines dedicated to safeguarding historical documents, artefacts and artworks from the deteriorative effects of time, environmental ...

Before arriving at WUDPAC to learn paper conservation, Sam Callanta constructed and painted sets as a scenic artist in the theater world. The work made her curious: “Why was I using latex versus ...

If you wrote this into a script, only a sci-fi producer would buy it. But researchers, divers and art conservators -- including a team from the Winterthur/University of Delaware Program in Art ...

UNESCO implemented the “Paper Conservation: Methodology of Paper Conservation and Paper Making Traditions in East Asia” project from 2008-2015, with the aim to provide a platform for intercultural ...

Upon aging, paper documents and books become progressively damaged. Paper deacidification is a fundamental conservation intervention. In this study, we report on the use of nanoparticles of titanium ...

The process of making tengujo is fairly simple, but the nearly transparent product that results is almost magical. By Oliver Whang In 2017, Soyeon Choi, the head paper conservator at the Yale Center ...

The ancient manuscript rested on the shelves of the Newberry Library for more than a century. Little was known about the bound book from colonial Mexico that had been donated to the library in 1911 by ...