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Sustainability & Historic Preservation: Toward a Holistic View

by Richard Longstreth, Shary Page Berg & Rebecca Howell Crew

Sustainability and Historic Preservation: Towards a Holistic View broadens the horizons of the mushrooming drive to correlate the objectives of these two spheres. To date, discussions of the relationship between...


Historic Floors

by Jane Fawcett

This is the first book in the UK to be devoted to historic floors. It introduces an important and largely neglected subject and considers conservation methods in a European context.

It traces the history of...


Conservation Treatment Methodology

by Barbara Appelbaum

Conservation Treatment Methodology presents a systematic approach to decision-making for conservation treatments. The methodology is applicable to all cultural property, independent of object type or material,...


Textile Conservator's Manual

by Sheila Landi

This second edition of 'Textile Conservator's Manual', now revised and available in paperback, provides an in-depth review of the current practice, ethics and materials used in textile conservation. Concentrating...


Conservation of Building and Decorative Stone

by F G Dimes & J. Ashurst

One of the problems which beset the practical conservation of stone buildings is the fragmentation of the disciplines involved. This book, with both volumes now available as one invaluable paperback, brings...


Tapestry Conservation: Principles and Practice

by Frances Lennard & Maria Hayward

Tapestry Conservation: Principles and Practice explores current practice and recent research in tapestry conservation, promoting awareness of recent developments among conservators and custodians of tapestries....


X-Radiography of Textiles, Dress and Related Objects

by Sonia O'Connor & Mary Brooks

X-radiography of textile objects reveals hidden features as well as unexpected components and materials. This non-destructive technique throws light on construction, manufacturing techniques, use, wear, repair,...


Italian Renaissance Frames at the V&A

by Christine Powell & Zoe Allen

This visually stunning and technically detailed book is an in-depth analysis of the materials and techniques used on thirty eight of the V&A's Renaissance frames. The book will teach the reader to recognise...


Conservation of Plastics

by Yvonne Shashoua

Plastic objects are included more than ever in museums and galleries collections these days, but these items can start to deteriorate when they a just a few years old. In this book Yvonne Shashoua provides the...


Digital Heritage

by Lindsay MacDonald

In the fields of documentation and conservation of cultural heritage assets, there is a constant need for higher quality records and better analytical tools for extracting information about the condition of...


Fragments of the World: Uses of Museum Collections

by Suzanne Keene

During the past decade a number of individual museums have found imaginative ways of using their collections and of making them accessible. However, museum collections as a whole are enormous in size and quantity...


Managing Conservation in Museums

by Suzanne Keene

Explaining and critically reviewing management procedures such as performance indicators and strategic planning, this book shows how techniques from mainstream management can be used to facilitate a holistic...


Conservation of Ruins

by John Ashurst

Despite growing international awareness of the presence and significance of ruined buildings and archaeological sites, and the increasingly sophisticated technology available for the collection of data about...


Light for Art's Sake

by Christopher Cuttle

Conservation scientists in museums and galleries have a clear understanding of the damage that light can inflict on an object, but what of the designers that create exhibitions to display these precious items?...


Heritage Marketing

by Shashi Misiura

Heritage Marketing is a new and clearly written textbook that systematically addresses the principles of marketing as applied to the heritage sector. The 'heritage industry' and its growing importance internationally...


Pigment Compendium: A Dictionary of Historical Pigments

by Nicholas Eastaugh, Valentine Walsh & Tracey Chaplin

The Pigment Compendium Dictionary is a comprehensive information source for scientists, art historians, conservators and forensic specialists.

Drawn together from extensive analystical research into the physical...


The History of Gauged Brickwork

by Gerard Lynch

This book takes a look at the history and use of cut, rubbed and gauged brickwork; the use of tools and equipment and the differences between historic and contemporary bricks with a view to inform conservation...


Radiography of Cultural Material

by Julia Tum, Andrew Middleton & Janet Lang

Radiography can be an invaluable tool for the study of a diverse array of cultural materials including metals, ceramics, paper, paintings and human and animal remains. In this book, experts in the field bring...


Textile Conservation

by Frances Lennard & Patricia Ewer

Textile Conservation: Advances in Practice demonstrates the development in the role and practice of the textile conservator and captures the current diversity of textile conservators' work.

The book focuses...


Conservation of Furniture

by Shayne Rivers & Nick Umney

This book is a comprehensive resource covering the principles and practice of the conservation and restoration of furniture, and other decorative art objects made wholly or partly of wood. It integrates theory...