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Conservation of furniture /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rivers, Shayne
Other Authors: Umney, Nick
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2013.
Subjects:
Furniture > Repairing.
Table of Contents:
  • Furniture history
  • Wood and wooden structures
  • Upholstery materials and structures
  • Plastics and polymers, coatings and binding media, adhesives and consolidants
  • Other materials and structures
  • General review of environment and deterioration
  • Deterioration of wood and wooden structures
  • Deterioration of other materials and structures
  • Conservation preliminaries
  • Principles of conserving and repairing wooden furniture
  • Principles of cleaning
  • Principles of consolidation, aesthetic reintegration and coatings
  • Conserving transparent coatings on wood
  • Introduction to traditional gilding
  • Conserving other materials I
  • Conserving other materials II