PRESERVATION OF WALLPAPERS AS PARTS OF INTERIORS

Documentation of the work on the Puurmani Manor
Mechanical damage:
Chemical damage:
Biological damage:
Other damage:
Scratches, cracks, parts of wallpaper had been ripped off
mechanically, numbers and crosses drawn on the wallpaper
with a pencil, heavily rubbed area,
Candle-wax, an unknown undissolable adhesive, chalk paint
Mold, insect holes
Dust
CONSERVATION AND RESTORATION PROCESSES:
Date: Conservation process: Used materials: Used time:
22 February 2010 Documenting – 2 hours
and measuring
22 February 2010 Making dry-cleaning Wishab Sponge 1 hour
samples
(Soft/Medium),
Faber & Castell
charcoal eraser
22 February 2010 Dismounting moulded restorer’s spatula, 3 hours
and heavily damaged
brush made of
parts of wallpaper
dear hair, distilled
water, buverizator
22–23 February 2010 Conservation and backing Japanese paper 10 hours
of heavily damaged and (Gampi, 36 g/m 2 ),
moulded wallpaper and wheat starch paste,
border
water-colours
24 February – Dry-cleaning of wallpapers Faber & Castell 48 hours
5 March 2010 from dust and dirt in situ charcoal eraser,
soft brush of deer
hair, brush of
pig hair
4 March 2010 Choosing a matching Wallpaper from 4 hours
one-colored wallpaper Pihlgren &
for the upper part of
Ritola OY
the wall
8 March 2010 Exposing a small area Restorer’s spatula, 2 hours
of lower wallpaper
distilled water,
cotton, aceton
8–9 March 2010 Consolidation and repair Japanese paper 16 hours
of paper damages (Gampi, 36 g/m 2 ),
metylcellulose
10–16 March 2010 Filling smaller losses of Japanese paper 24 hours
wallpaper (Gampi, 36 g/m 2 ),
Klucel G, ethanol,
metylcellulose,
fragments of
original wallpaper
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