An illustrative video on the repair and restoration of vintage calligraphy/fountain pens!…
An abbreviated history of Italian frames from the 12th to the 20th century…
The smudges, splotches, and stains of medieval manuscripts…
A very interesting article on the art of forgery, and how to detect forgeries in the art world. https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/jun/15/how-to-spot-a-perfect-fake-the-worlds-top-art-forgery-detective…
Those book worms may prove useful after all! https://news.science360.gov/obj/video/40627abd-8e42-4f41-8f14-d097c39a8111/museum-sack-bearer-moth-specimens-generate-new-possibilities-dna-research…
Why join the International Institute for Conservation?…
Do you have brittle transparent papers in your collection that require conservation treatment? Because of the way they were manufactured, the preservation of transparency papers usually poses specific challenges. The fibers within the paper have typically been beaten to…
I discovered this nicely produced video on the manufacture of parchment. Parchment and vellum are paper’s predecessors. After stone tablets, they were a much more portable mode to record the written word. As you can see from this documentary,…
The following is a very interesting article from IIC regarding shipwrecked documents: “On 5th December 1940, the British India Steam Navigation Co. Ltd.’s SS Gairsoppa left from the port of Calcutta, India to sail toward Britain. The cargo ship…