No Leafcaster? No Problem! Using the suction table to fill large lacunae in an entire volume

Baker, Whitney

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2005-07-22

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Baker, Whitney

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The Changing Book Conference: Transitions in Design, Production, and Preservation, University of Iowa, Iowa City

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The poster presentation follows the treatment of a badly mold- and vermin-damaged 17th c. English herbal of roughly 600 pages. The developed treatment protocol calls for pulp fills using a vacuum suction table in place of a leafcaster, which was not available. The poster documents the decisions and workflow involved in a treatment procedure that other conservators could adapt for their own special collections treatments.

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http://hdl.handle.net/1808/517

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