It is a conservation technique
intended to secure emulsion that is in danger of detaching.
You need:
- 1% of gelatin
- Coffee warmer
- Filtered water (to humidify the photograph)
- Warm press
- Brushes
- Release paper (put in the warm pres)
How to do
- Warm up 1% gelatin on coffee warmer until it gets liquid.
- Put the photograph on the clean surface with the recto down so you see verso.
- Spray it twice.
- Aplly the gelatin along the cracks of the photograph by brush.
- Put the photograph with the face down in the warm press for 20 seconds (no more).
- Put it under weight over night.
Tips:
- If you don’t have 1% gelatin you can make it by yourself. It is a simple procedure of putting 1 gr. gelatin grains into 100 ml. filtered water. The gelatin will swell as it absorbs the water. If we keep it in refrigerator it can last for 6 months.
The treatment of the photograph below included: cleaning, mending, filling the losses, consolidation and inpainting.
Great job Lidija!
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