The third week of the treatment has been focused on page repairs using varying weights of Japanese paper and wheat starch paste. There are three main types of damage affecting the pages of the India Album.
Updating my recipe of wheat starch paste using Talas’ Wheat Starch Aytex-P, prepared with a microwave:
A volunteer: Additionally, I was able to go from working on 5 pages (which is the max, I could seem to handle working solo) to 11! This was all thanks to the help of a volunteer, Danielle Settlemeyer. Danielle has come as a volunteer to USAHEC’s conservation department from the archives. She previously had training in item handling and some conservation experience. This was also the first time I had a chance to train a volunteer in assisting me with a project. It certainly brought back memories of when I was first being trained. Danielle will be assisting me a few more times during the page repair stage of this process.
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