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Natural polymers as alternative consolidants for the preservation of waterlogged archaeological wood

Chemical bleaching of wood: an investigation into the bleaching of mahogany, walnut, rosewood, padauk, and purpleheart

Verifying the operation of an elastic crossbar system applied to a panel painting: the Deposition from the Cross by an anonymous artist from Abruzzo, sixteenth century

Nineteenth century chrome yellow and chrome deep from Winsor & NewtonTM

News in Conservation, February 2017

The properties of potassium silicate/ fly ash slurry used in the conservation of adobe structures

Fungal bioreceptivity of Japanese tissue papers treated with plant dyes, watercolours, and acrylic paints in paper conservation

Evaluation of the use of Funori for consolidation of powdering paint layers in wall paintings

Decay of softwood in archaeological wooden artifacts

Organic residue analysis of Egyptian votive mummies and their research potential

Copper(II) hydroxide on artefacts: Corrosion, conservation, colourants

Ultrasonic phased array technology for the non-destructive testing of marble sculptures

Non-structural injection grouts with reduced water content: Changes induced by the partial substitution of water with alcohol

Ethanol as an antifungal treatment for paper: short-term and long-term effects

Identification of cellulose nitrate X-ray film for the purpose of conservation: Organic elemental analysis

Lead soaps in paintings: Friends or foes?

Compensation for small losses to lacquer and inlaid decoration using paper fills painted and glazed in situ

A preliminary examination of urushi-based conservation options for the treatment of photodegraded Japanese lacquer using scanning electron microscopy and profilometry

Fusing and refreshing the memory: Conserving a Chinese lacquered Buddha sculpture in London

Reduced, reused and recycled: The treatment and redisplay of a repurposed seventeenth-century Coromandel lacquer screen in the Acton Collection, Villa La Pietra, Florence

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