{"title":"Tibetan thang kas: An overview","authors":"J. Elgar","doi":"10.1080/03094227.2006.9638437","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03094227.2006.9638437","url":null,"abstract":"Summary An overview of Tibetan thang kas is given from creation of the painted image to the origins and importance of the Tibetan scroll format. Mounting styles first presented by J. C. Huntington are reviewed and commented upon with examples taken from the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. A case study detailing treatment, display, and storage solutions for a seventeenth-century central Tibetan thang ka (Amitayus Enthroned) is presented.","PeriodicalId":243922,"journal":{"name":"The Paper Conservator","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133952579","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Preservation and conservation of traditional antique Chinese painting and calligraphy seen through observation and examination of works of art","authors":"Huan-Shen Lin","doi":"10.1080/03094227.2006.9638436","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03094227.2006.9638436","url":null,"abstract":"Summary This paper emphasizes the importance of examination and research into historic works of Chinese painting and calligraphy as a means to observing the effects of preservation and conservation methods, present and past. Deterioration of hanging scrolls and hand scrolls is described, along with traditional storage enclosures, as well as some conservation techniques for these materials. The principles of ‘flatness, softness, thinness, and brightness’, as applied to the mounting of hanging scrolls, are explained.","PeriodicalId":243922,"journal":{"name":"The Paper Conservator","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125631398","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reflections on the spread of Japanese paper and conservation techniques","authors":"K. Masuda","doi":"10.1080/03094227.2006.9638429","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03094227.2006.9638429","url":null,"abstract":"Summary The author reflects on the spread of knowledge of Japanese traditional mounting techniques and materials to the West and developments in conservation/preservation in Japan. The paper also includes a brief description of three projects currently in progress, namely an adhesion method based on micro-dots of paste; a rolled storage method; and a method to reproduce a decorated paper from the eleventh century called ramonshi.","PeriodicalId":243922,"journal":{"name":"The Paper Conservator","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121173004","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Conservation of Asian art—a select bibliography of Western language publications","authors":"Robert Minte","doi":"10.1080/03094227.2006.9638439","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03094227.2006.9638439","url":null,"abstract":"Summary This bibliography updates Wendy Bennett's bibliography published in 1985 in The Paper Conservator volume 9, Hyõgu: The Japanese Tradition in Picture Conservation. The new bibliography includes selected works relating to the conservation of Asian art arranged by subject, covering areas such as tools and techniques, objects and their construction, pigments, dyes and other media, case studies, etc.","PeriodicalId":243922,"journal":{"name":"The Paper Conservator","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122171936","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Some painting techniques and materials used in Japan and the Far East","authors":"S. Grantham","doi":"10.1080/03094227.2006.9638430","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03094227.2006.9638430","url":null,"abstract":"Summary The information for this article is based on the author's primary research on copy painting techniques (nihonga mosha) at Kyoto City University of Art in 1996. This paper describes the development of painting in the Far East from calligraphic brush marks to eloquent, brightly coloured pictorial art and the tools required to create it. An account of the brushes, supports and sizing used is followed by a description of the ink and colourants involved. Artist's paint making and the techniques for its application are explained, with a short outline of painting styles and artistic expression.","PeriodicalId":243922,"journal":{"name":"The Paper Conservator","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130953487","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Editorial preface","authors":"J. Eagan, P. Meredith","doi":"10.1080/03094227.2006.9638428","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03094227.2006.9638428","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":243922,"journal":{"name":"The Paper Conservator","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114095280","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Guidelines for the care of East Asian paintings: Display, storage and handling","authors":"Andrew Hare","doi":"10.1080/03094227.2006.9638435","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03094227.2006.9638435","url":null,"abstract":"Summary Traditional East Asian paintings evolved over centuries into physically and aesthetically sophisticated objects. Made with delicate materials and time-honoured methods, East Asian scrolls, screens, and albums are complex, laminate mounting structures that are easily damaged by mishandling and unstable environmental conditions. In the East, customary practices for display, storage, and connoisseurship have been essential for long-term preservation. For East Asian paintings housed in the West, concerns have arisen about appropriate measures for care and maintenance in modern museum environments. Based on experience as a traditionally trained East Asian painting conservator and informed by Western preventive conservation practices, the author presents relevant traditional methods and modem innovations for the safe display, storage and handling of scrolls, screens and albums. Broken into three sections, the article introduces guidelines and practical suggestions to determine suitable environmental parameters, display methods, storage containers and handling techniques. By relating traditional practices and modern developments, the author hopes to increase awareness of East Asian paintings and encourage improvements in their preservation.","PeriodicalId":243922,"journal":{"name":"The Paper Conservator","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121740989","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The conservation of the Sarajevo Haggadah","authors":"A. Pataki, B. Narkiss, J. Arnoult","doi":"10.1080/03094227.2005.9638488","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03094227.2005.9638488","url":null,"abstract":"In 2001, the United Nations Mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina in Sarajevo (UNMiBH), and the UNESCO Office in Bosnia and Herzegovina decided to undertake the conservation of the Sarajevo Haggadah, an important fourteenthcentury illuminated parchment manuscript (Figs. i ,2). A mission was organized in April 2001 with the aim of examining the manuscript and writing a proposal for its conservation. The working group consisted of chief librarian Jean-Marie Arnoult, art historian Bezalel Narkiss, and conservator Andrea Pataki. As a first step, the manuscript was examined and its physical state described. In view of the history of the document and its symbolic value in the current political and religious context, our proposal for the manuscript focussed on preserving it and carrying out stabilizing repairs which would not alter its","PeriodicalId":243922,"journal":{"name":"The Paper Conservator","volume":"178 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132333438","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Current use and future development of the database of the St. Catherine's Library Conservation Project","authors":"A. Velios, Nicholas Pickwoad","doi":"10.1080/03094227.2005.9638486","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03094227.2005.9638486","url":null,"abstract":"Summary The St. Catherine's library conservation project has focussed so far on the condition assessment of the collection, which took place in the St Catherine's Monastery in Sinai, Egypt. Detailed information of each of the 3306 manuscripts of the library has been collected. Approximately 1000 observations were made on each manuscript. During the assessment, this information was kept on paper. However, a computer filing system was necessary to store the information in digital format which would then allow quick searching of the data. In this paper, the authors describe the design and implementation of a computer database system which helps organize, categorize and access the collected data quickly and efficiently. The article includes an extensive description of the principles behind the database design. It also refers to the complexity of the recorded data and how this fits the relational database model. The paper concludes by exploring the future development of the database and its transition to XML.","PeriodicalId":243922,"journal":{"name":"The Paper Conservator","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115740233","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"X-ray diffraction and FT-IR study of caprine and ovine hide","authors":"C. Maxwell, Nancy J. Bell, C. Kennedy, T. Wess","doi":"10.1080/03094227.2005.9638487","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03094227.2005.9638487","url":null,"abstract":"Summary The processing of animal hides to create parchment involves several steps. Our previous study characterized the effects of salting and liming on the structure of collagen, the predominant component of hides and parchment. The current study investigates the effects on collagen structure of the use of solvents propan-2-one and 2-ethoxy ethanol, treatments used historically to produce parchments of a high quality. It was found by small angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) that the axial dspacing of collagen was reduced in samples treated with these solvents as compared to control samples, indicating that the treatments have induced further dehydration and rearrangement of the molecules. However, wide angle X-ray diffraction (WAXD) indicated that, in the lateral direction, the distance between neighbouring molecules was not alted. WAXD also displayed clear peaks brought about by the presence of calcite in the samples, residual from the liming process. The presence of calcium carbonate was confirmed by Fourier Transform Ma-red spectroscopy (FT-IR). FT-IR was shown to differentiate between caprine and ovine samples, and the flesh and grain layers of the hide. The main difference, as inferred by principal components analysis (PCA) arises hom the calcite peaks, indicating that the different layers from the different skins take up calcium carbonate in a different way during the liming process. The solvent treatments did not appear to affect the FT-IR spectra in any way.","PeriodicalId":243922,"journal":{"name":"The Paper Conservator","volume":"59 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125190784","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}