Etherington Conservation
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.

