Paper Conservation & Parchment Restoration

Paper Conservation

• Repairs of tears, linings & infilling missing areas.
• Tissue lamination.
• Cleaning surface dirt.
• Aqueous wash to remove stains.
• Deacidification both aqueous & spray methods.
• pH testing.
• Removal of ‘Sellotape’.
• Retouching/toning.
• Archival backing for posters & large maps.
• Debacking to remove odd backlinings of paper & board.

Parchment Restoration

• Surface cleaning of dirt.
• Relaxing (flattening).
• Stabilizing fragile areas.
• Repairing tears.
• Replacing missing areas.