PřF:C5980 Conserv.organic subjects I - Course Information
C5980 Conservation of subjects made from organic materials I
Faculty of ScienceAutumn 2006
- Extent and Intensity
- 4/0/0. 4 credit(s) (fasci plus compl plus > 4). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
- Teacher(s)
- Mgr. Dana Modráčková (lecturer)
- Guaranteed by
- prof. RNDr. Jiří Příhoda, CSc.
Department of Chemistry – Chemistry Section – Faculty of Science - Timetable
- Mon 12:00–15:50 03021
- Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
- fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- Chemistry of Conservation - Restoration (programme PřF, B-CH)
- Syllabus
- 1. Strucuture an properties of wood. Macroscopical and microscopical composition structure of wood. Chemical composition of wood. Physical and mechanical properties of wood. Wood dating. 2. Wood damaging (biological, insects, chemical and atmospherical agents). Negative influence of high temepratures. 3. Conservation of wood. Protecting from biological attack. Material used for cementation of wood. Fire-protective means. Technological ways of wood impregnation. Wood construction elements and its restoration. 4. Conservation of water-saturated and archeological wood. Dehydratation and cementation by non-aqueous solutions of special substances, aqueous solutions of cementing agents. Cementation by radiation polymerization of monomers. 5. Treatment of wood surfaces. Polychromy. Gilding. Encaustics. Pickling. Incrustation. Veneering. Sorts of lacquers used for surface treatment. Determination of lacquer properties. 6. Leather, hide, parchment. Their structure and physico-chemical properties. History of their production. Production of hides and parchment. Reason of damaging. 7. Conservation and restoration of parchment. Cleaning. Neutralization, levelling. Removing of clarity. Reparations - lamination, mending, filling, cementation. Illumination and calligraphy on parchment. Storage of parchment. 8. Paper. History of production and utilization of paper. Chemical, overmolecular and morphological structure of plant fibers. Common properties. Physical, mechanical and optical propertiers. Reasons of paper damaging. 9. Preventice care. Specification of conceptions and extent of preventice care. Characteristics of scriptural memories from aspects of preventive care. Climatic conditions. Storage systems. 10. Conservation and restoration of paper. Desinfection, cleaning, removing of acidic impurities, glueing and cementation. Reparations, filling a skeletization. Levelling a pressing. 11. Methods for conservation a restoration of seals. Function, history, form, and size of seals. Sealing material. Sample forms. Development of methods used for conservation and restoration of seals. Ethics of conservation and restoration and present state. 12. Historical documentation means. Transfer inks. Iron - gallic inks. Printing colours. Illumination and colours. 13. Todays documentation means. Fixation of coloured layer. Methods od chemical and physical visibling of pale texts. 14. Conservation and restoration of book binding. History and typology of book binding. Restoration of book "in situ". Complex restoration of book block and binding. Conservation and restoration of shackles and forging.
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further Comments
- The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
The course is taught annually.
- Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2006, recent)
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