Tag
conservation
The Right Storage for Antique Textiles: A Pennsylvania Quilt Collection
Helga Schoenfeld's eighty-four quilts, the rolled-tube method, and the case against cedar chests for anything you actually want to keep.
Cleaning Gilded Frames Without Touching the Gold
A nineteenth-century water-gilded frame in a Chicago apartment, the difference between gilding and gilt paint, and why a soft brush is the entire toolkit.
Leather Book Bindings and the Red Rot Question
A 19th-century theological library in a Boston rectory, the powdery decay that conservators call red rot, and the four interventions that work.
A 19th-Century Cigar-Store Indian, Conserved Not Restored
A polychrome carved figure attributed to the Robb workshop of New York, c. 1872, came into a private conservation studio in Hudson with most of its original paint surviving. The decision was to leave it alone.
Humidity Control for a Small Private Library
A 2,800-volume private library in a converted New Hampshire schoolhouse, a hygrometer logbook since 2018, and the case against the basement.
Cleaning Silver Without Abrasion: The Conservator's Method
A Georgian sauceboat in a Hudson kitchen, an aluminum-foil bath, and the slow argument against the pink paste in the cupboard.