Profession: Book and Paper Conservator

Описание: What does a paper conservator do? Whom does she work for? What skills and knowledge does she ought to have?
Preservation and conservation, a field linked to science, history and arts and crafts.
This video or the Arts and Humanities Entrepreneurship Hub (AHEH) explains what differenciates us from forgers and shows among other how we produce a hand-made suction table to restore paper artifacts, with loads of creativity, a feature most necessary to become book and paper conservator. Enjoy it!

💬 [Subtitles in ENGLISH, CASTELLANO & CATALÀ]
🇪🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Video Spanish spoken:    • Profession: Book and Paper Conservator  

More information about each artifact and their conservation treatment: https://www.ritaudina.com/en/2020/12/...

0:00 What does a book and paper conservator do?
0:16 Manuscript from Terrassa (Regional Archive of Vallès Occidental)
0:18 Manuscript from Cervera (Regional Archive of la Segarra)
0:25 Manuscript from Lleida (Historical Archive of Lleida).
Leaves wet cleaning, conservator Paula Bueso.
0:47 Manuscript from Tortosa (Regional Archive of Baix Ebre)
Finishing the restored folios, conservator Ana Tourais.
1:01 Gouache on paper by Joan Ponç
(wet cleaning and inks fixation).
1:19 Tools and equipment (suction table)
1:29 Manuscript from Lleida: infilling losses (paper pulp leafcast)
1:37 Manuscript from Cervera (Regional Archive of la Segarra)
(disbinding and documentation of locks' knots).
1:49 Manuscript from Association of Architects of Catalonia
(Repair of the locked lock inside a book cover)
1:55 Inpainting (retouch) on a poster.
2:31 Manuscript from Regional Archive of Alt Empordà
(broken endband, in the need of repair, or reproduciton).
2:34 Endband on printed book being reproduced..
2:41 Gouache painting, fugitivity test on inks.
(Centre for Contemporary Textile Art, Sant Cugat del Vallès).
2:47 Preparation of chelating solution.
2:51 Fluoroglucine test to detect lignin on paper
2:57 Manuscript from Terrassa (Regional Archive of Vallès Occidental)
(measuring the folios' thickness)
3:05 Lining and backing an oversized poster.
3:09 Pressure sensitive tape removal from tracing paper.
Drawing by Domènech i Montaner (Association of Architects of Catalonia)
3:12 Exhibiting "The disasters of war", by Goya, once restored.
3:18 Manuscript from Tortosa (Regional Archive of Baix Ebre).    • Limp vellum binding with rolled sewing, be...  


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