Rita Udina

Rita Udina
Independent Researcher

Academic Degree on Book & Paper Conservation

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September 1999 - March 2021
Rita Udina · Book and Paper Conservation
Position
  • Owner and conservator
Description
  • https://ritaudina.com
Education
September 1994 - September 1997
Escola de Conservació i Restauració de Béns Culturals de Catalunya, ESCRBCC
Field of study
  • Paper and book conservation

Publications

Publications (24)
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This chapter is based on the very real experience of a flood in one of the repositories of Barcelona's Municipal Archive, introducing a quality control methodology for the air-drying of wet documents. It is a simple monitoring system that allows you to quantify the degree of drying during treatment. The data derived from it will help reduce interve...
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Books are structurally complex objects. In order to provide a good restoration diagnosis it is necessary to differentiate between damage intrinsic to their production and other causes. This article examines some of the most widely known structures, assessing their strengths and weaknesses in accordance with the following considerations: sewing, adh...
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Los papeles vegetales impregnados ocupan una parcela muy importante de nuestro patrimonio documental. Su uso se generalizó a partir del siglo XIX como consecuencia de la Revolución Industrial. Arquitectos, diseñadores e ingenieros los empleaban como la manera más directa de reproducir dibujos, diseños o planos. Se trata de papeles en los que la tr...
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Reversibility has been thoroughly explored in conservation from all sorts of angles, and although it is agreed to be an unattainable concept, still nowadays remains a synonym of good practice. The article reviews this concept again seeking to unravel the aspects that actually define the essence of ethics and proficiency in heritage conservation. Re...
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Los papeles vegetales impregnados ocupan una parcela muy im-portante de nuestro patrimonio documental. Su uso se generalizó a partir del siglo XIX como consecuencia de la Revolución Indus-trial. Arquitectos, diseñadores e ingenieros los empleaban como la manera más directa de reproducir dibujos, diseños o planos.Se trata de papeles en los que la tr...
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Reversibility has been thoroughly explored in conservation from all sorts of angles, and although it is agreed to be an unattainable concept, still nowadays remains a synonym of good practice. The article reviews this concept again seeking to unravel the aspects that actually define the essence of ethics and proficiency in heritage conservation. Re...
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Reversibility has been thoroughly explored in conservation from all sorts of angles, and although it is agreed to be an unattainable concept, still nowadays remains a synonym of good practice. The article reviews this concept again seeking to unravel the aspects that actually define the essence of ethics and proficiency in heritage conservation. Re...
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Reversibility has been thoroughly explored in conservation from all sorts of angles, and although it is agreed to be an unattainable concept, still nowadays remains a synonym of good practice. The article reviews this concept again seeking to unravel the aspects that actually define the essence of ethics and proficiency in heritage conservation. Re...
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Paperback books are very popular bookbindings. From the aldine books, this simple structure has survived unchanged for centuries, and we can find either cheap issues to the most exquisite collector’s editions. They have inherent structural weaknesses whose consequences are well known: breakage of the spine, loose covers, and eventual failure of th...
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¿Cuándo lavar, y cuándo no lavar? Beneficios y riesgos de los tratamientos acuosos por inmersión en restauración de papel
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Some manuscripts require more than just manual skills to succeed in their conservation, and so we prayed to Saint Anthony to help us unlocking the bookbinding, whose key had been lost forever. Certainly not many renaissance bookbindings have an iron safety lock in their covers and thus this extra holly help was deemed quite necessary. The prayer di...
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Silver mirroring is a type of deterioration that appears in most gelatin developing-out paper (DOP) historical photographs and black-and-white films. Its treatment involves so many problems that it has often been ruled out. In this article we present a new and simple elimination procedure, which is efficient and offers stable results in the long te...
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Reversibility has been thoroughly explored in conservation from all sorts of angles, and although it is agreed to be an unattainable concept, still nowadays remains a synonym of good practice. The article reviews this concept again seeking to unravel the aspects that actually define the essence of ethics and proficiency in heritage conservation. Re...
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The headband to a book is like the tie to a suit: they both give their owner the chance to stand out. It is like the icing on the cake of the binding, and gathers the bookbinder's proficiency and taste. We'll discuss their aspect like in a Vanity Fair, and go beyond: What are they meant for? and why stuck-on headbands are less cared by conservators...
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Powdered micro-cellulose is commonly used in the paper conservation lab for filling small losses, concealing stains and treating other damages on paper. Its neutral pH, general chemical stability and low toxicity, makes powdered cellulose a very reliable and compatible material, and also proved to be suitable for conservation purposes, like infilli...
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Powdered micro-cellulose is commonly used in the paper conservation lab for filling small losses, concealing stains and treating other damages on paper. Its neutral pH, general chemical stability and low toxicity, makes powdered cellulose a very reliable and compatible material, and also proved to be suitable for conservation purposes, like infilli...
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A personal story, a historic manuscript, a crazy laminating machine and a final outcome. We'll discuss about synthetic polymers, sorts of laminations and encapsulation. All these ingredients are seasoned with PFTE, TFA, HFIP, PE, DMSO, PET... cling, dong and BOOM!... An explosive -but most irresistible- cocktail.
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Approach to a new methodolgy to retrieve the lost flexibility to brittle papers. Tracing papers -so usual among technical drawings- have in common their transparency, but there are significant differences in the process to make them. The properties and behavior will be very different then. Impregnated papers, for an instance, were applied oils or v...

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