In conservation, climate is everything. Few variables have as much impact on the condition of artworks, documents and artefacts as temperature and relative...
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...
Not every conservation studio starts from scratch. Professionals who have long worked on the conservation of paintings on canvas and panel, paper or wood...
Demineralized Water in Conservation: Why It Matters, How to Measure It, and How to Produce It in the Laboratory
In conservation, water is everywhere:...
Some tools become so much a part of the laboratory routine that they turn invisible. The lamp is one of them: it's always there, always working — and...
The restoration intervention on the painting Nero con punti (jute, synthetic polymer varnish, vinyl glue, fine-weave canvas support, 200 × 128 cm), created...
An interesting article published in Studies in Conservation describes a phenomenon that may also have occurred in Italian laboratories and museums: the...
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...
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...
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...