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Title Of Article Chaper
Prints off the ice: the conservation and restoration of the nova Zembla prints
Title Of Journal Book
International Conference on the Conservation of Library and Archive Materials and the Graphic Arts, Cambridge, 22-26 September 1980. Abstracts and preprints
Pages
184-185
Publisher
Institute for Paper Conservation. Society of Archivists
Publisher City
London
Language Of Text
English
Literature Type
Monograph
Literature Level
Analytic
Meeting
International Conference on the Conservation of Library and Archive Materials
Meeting City
Cambridge
Abstract
Description of the restoration process followed to free the prints which were pulped together into hard blocks enzymes (first biolase g then maxatase) were used to break downs the proteins of the glue which had shown to be present throughout the blocks. Then the prints have been restored and reconstructed. -- ICCROM
Keywords
Paper, conservation restoration; Archaeology, artifact frozen conservation; Enzyme, protein hydrolysis ICCROM
pub_id
4730
Meeting Date
19800922-19800926