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Historic Textiles, Papers, and Polymers in Museums

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Reviews the scientific methods used to examine artifacts and art objects in order to accurately assess their condition and prescribe care, exhibition and storage. The volume discusses the aging of natural and synthetic polymers such as wool, cotton, silk, paper, wood and polymers used in sculptures, photographs, film and other media.
Important analytical methods such as size exclusion, chromatography,
viscometry, and gel electrophoresis, are described in assessing damage in silk textiles…