In today’s gross-out corner (aka the fume hood), I examine a book for evidence of mold. Spoiler alert: it is VERY moldy.
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Category: ConserveThis! Archive
This is an archive of posts from both my old blogs (Digital Cellulose, Chartex project) and my current Tumblr blog, Conserve This!
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Virgin Annunciate, 14th Century Polychrome Wood Sculpture. An Italian sculpture in the collection of the Columbia Museum of Art, in Columbia, South Carolina. Part of a pair, along with Archangel Gabriel. Photo by conservethis.
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Found this tiny doodle of this book’s cover inside of the book, used as a bookmark.
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Circulation just sent me this book, which apparently is actually the halves of TWO different books bound together accidentally by our commercial binder. As far as I can tell, the first half of the book is “What we talk about when we talk about love" by Raymond Carver, and the second half is a book by […]
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Weeding the conservation lab’s own research library, and these VHS tapes are getting scrutinized (by me) for their usefulness to future lab inhabitants. So far I’ve been able to find a DVD version available of “Into the Future”, which is also a great example of the 90′s era of internet optimism. As for the others, I […]
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Spot the irony! This one is especially for digitalproductionunit Oh and look, someone digitized it and put it up online!
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A reading Sasquatch in the Portland airport.
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Just got a treat via Interlibrary Loan! The much-beloved, but limited-run journal known as “Recent Setbacks in Conservation”. Thanks to thegetty for loaning them! I’ll take good care of them while they’re in my possession. 🙂 Here’s just a sampling of what articles are contained within: “Restoration from Beyond: Is There a Happy Medium?” “Preserving a […]
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Arrrrrrrrrrgh! The printer isn’t very color calibrated and this replacement endpaper is too pink!
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(via Memorials of Edward Burne-Jones, by G. B.-J. ) I was reading Victoria Finlay’s wonderful “The Brilliant History of Color in Art”, and came across this interesting story in the chapter about mummy brown. In it, the Pre-Raphaelite painter Edward Burne-Jones performed a burial ceremony for a tube of mummy-brown paint, when he learned that […]