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CRI (COLOR RENDERING INDEX)

What is CRI? The CRI (Color Rendering Index) measures, on a scale from 0 to 100, how accurately a light source reproduces the colours of an object compared...
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Heated spatula CTS Artist III "Basic"

Not every conservation studio starts from scratch. Professionals who have long worked on the conservation of paintings on canvas and panel, paper or wood...
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Demineralized Water in Conservation and the MINIDEM 30

Demineralized Water in Conservation: Why It Matters, How to Measure It, and How to Produce It in the Laboratory In conservation, water is everywhere:...
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CTS FOCUS - Alberto Burri reloaded and beyond

The restoration intervention on the painting Nero con punti (jute, synthetic polymer varnish, vinyl glue, fine-weave canvas support, 200 × 128 cm), created...
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CTS FOCUS - Mom, my amphora has come unglued!

An interesting article published in Studies in Conservation describes a phenomenon that may also have occurred in Italian laboratories and museums: the...
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CTS FOCUS 08 - The Future of Cleaning is Called Nevek®

The extracting and supporting properties of Agar-Agar have been known for several years and have been exploited to perform cleaning treatments on all kinds...
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CTS FOCUS - DBE, the greenest solvent

As introduced in the previous issue of the CTS Bulletin (56.2_ Leaning towards green), CTS is renewing its product price list, removing some toxic solvents...
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CTS FOCUS - The Deposition and the Fluoline Family

Fluoline HY, a little-known fixative that has proven extremely useful due to its low chromatic impact and ease of removal, was the subject of recent research...
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