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CONSERVATION AND RESTORATION OF PARCHMENTS
International Seminar & Workshop
Date: 3-5 September 2008
Place: Turin, Italy
Organisers:
University of Turin
IDAP Network
Italian Ministry for Cultural Property and Heritage
The National University Library of Turin
The State Archive of Turin
The Historical Archive of the City of Turin
Seminar
The objective of the Seminar is to provide an updated picture of the chemical and physical nature of parchment, its ageing and deterioration processes caused by environment. Information will be given on advanced physical-chemical methods set up for the assessment of the molecular, nanoscopic, mesoscopic and microscopic deterioration of parchment’s supramolecular structure as well as on latest techniques devised for their restoration. Conservators-restorers and curators engaged in investigation of damaging of parchments and their restoration will illustrate current conservation and restoration practice.
Results obtained in the project funded by the Italian Ministry for Cultural Property and Heritage and coordinated by the National University Library of Turin, in collaboration with the Central Institute for the Pathology of the Book (ICPL) of Rome, on the restoration of its parchment collections damaged by fire in 1904 will be illustrated.
The Seminar will offer space for communications and poster presentation by experts, research groups, laboratories, and institutions involved in the evaluation of damage in parchments and their restoration.
Seminar themes
-Recent progress in parchment research (assessment, diagnosis, damage prediction, monitoring)
-Current practice in conservation and restoration of parchments
-Knowledge and technology transfer from research to end-users
-Standardisation and sustainability strategies in parchment heritage conservation
-Education and training
Workshop
The Workshop is directed to train conservators-restorers, curators, archivists and librarians in managing and monitoring of parchments’ collections as well as the assessment of their damage. Participants will be taught the macroscopic examination (visual assessment) techniques used to assess the “state of health” of parchment. They will also be shown how to use the databases created by the IDAP, PDAP (Parchment Damage Assessment Programme), EWS (Early Warning System) and DUPDA (Digitised User-Friendly Parchment Damage Atlas).
A restricted number of 30 participants has been decided for this first edition of the Workshop. The participants will be provided with materials and guidelines for the laboratory experiments.
Seminar venue: The National University Library of Turin
Workshop venue: Restoration Laboratory, The State Archive of Turin
Registration for Seminar & Workshop is now open at
http://www.seminar-parchment2008.org/
For further details contact: Dr. Elena Badea, tel. +390116707571,
e-mail: parchment2008dchifm(at)unito.it
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