PRESERVATION OF WALLPAPERS AS PARTS OF INTERIORS

Preservation of wallpaper as a part of interiors
Figure 99. An easily removable mounting system was built up in the Theodor
Aman Museum in Bucharest. It consisted of a layer of thin cotton canvas and
two layers of non-acid lining-paper.
pretation of a Japanese karibari system and a method of attaching
wallpapers onto a canvas were discussed by Andreja Dragojevic
in relation to remounting rare French wallpaper found in
Dubrovnik, Croatia. 377 In that case, the walls were pasted over
with three layers of lining: 1 m × 1 m pieces of Japanese paper,
previously washed and dried linen canvas and another layer
of Japanese paper.
After that, an “air-pocket” layer was applied. Attaching a
thicker Japanese paper layer directly onto the “air-pocket” layer
in larger sheets completed the lining of the walls. Although the
article does not provide any information about the adhesive,
one could assume that either wheat starch paste or a mixture
of starch paste and methylcellulose was used.
A much simpler combination of thin cotton canvas pasted
over with two layers of non-acid lining-paper 378 was used in
377
Dragojevic, “Croatia: the Story Continues”, 62.
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Staufen-Demmler GmbH & Co. KG, Mal- und Zeichenpapier Skizzenpapier 50 cm x 10m.
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