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Conservation Treatment

Professional Conservation Treatment

There are a number of treatments typically carried out by professional paper, book, and photographs conservators. These might include surface cleaning of paper, removal of damaging backings or mounts, removal of adhesive tape, washing in water, alkalization, mending or backing weakened items, bleaching to reduce stains, retouching areas of loss, re-sewing book pages, re-backing books with damaged covers or spines, and full rebinding of damaged volumes.

The images below illustrate some of these techniques.

See NEDCC's leaflets Conservation Treatment for Works of Art and Unbound Artifacts on Paper and Conservation Treatment for Bound Materials of Value for more detailed information on typical conservation treatments.