Services

• Conservation, restoration and period rebinding of books. Treatments range from minimal intervention to complex conservation including aqueous treatment.
• Conservation of works of art on paper, vellum and parchment documents and photographs.
• Conservation matting and framing.
• Deacidification and polyester film encapsulation.
• Custom designed enclosures (clamshell boxes, phase boxes, display cases, and other types of protective enclosures).
• Disaster recovery including fire, water, mold and insect damaged materials.
• Consultations, collection surveys and training.
• Archival photocopying and brittle book replacement.
• Scanning and digital reformatting including digital restoration of photographs.
• Custom fine binding and edition binding.

Clients and Recent Projects

• American University of Cairo: Survey and restoration of Hassan Fathy Collection of architectural drawings.
• Arizona State University: Conservation of architectural drawings, photographs and other special collection materials, including custom housing for compact discs and cassettes from the music collection.
• Biltmore House: Conservation treatment and reframing of works of art on paper and restoration of rare books.
• Czech Republic: Conservation survey of the Lobkowicz Collection of medieval manuscripts, incunabula and rare books.
• Library of Virginia: Conservation of rare books, archival and manuscripts collections, and cartographic materials. Treatment and rehousing of Virginia’s Bill of Rights, 1791; The Surrender of Gen. Cornwallis, 1789; Schedel’s Nuremburg Chronicle, 1493. Staffing of LVA's on-site paper conservation lab.
• Metropolitan Museum of Art: Restoration of oversized art and architectural books from the 18th and 19th Centuries.
• National Archives: Consultation on rehousing and display of the Charters of Freedom which include the Declaration of Independence and Bill of Rights.
• North Carolina Museum of Art and University of Pittsburgh: Conservation and rehousing of plates from Audubon’s double elephant folio, Birds of America, 1831-1834.
• Ohio State University: conservation and restoration of 15th and 16th century books.
• United States Supreme Court: Archival photocopy reproduction and rebinding of law books.
• Yale University: Restoration of rare books from Special Collections and from the collections of the Elizabethan Club.