November 12, 2008

An Old Approach in Conservation

We came across a few interesting documents in the past few weeks. It was not the information provided within the documents necessarily, but the conservation method performed upon the documents.

The first, front and back:


And the second:



This sewing is an intriguing non-adhesive conservation method that has actually held up fairly well in both documents over the years!

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

i really enjoy reading you're article.,thanks!

tara said...

What do we say about necessity and all that inventive jazz? Nice.