Coating on drafting linen

Carol Edwards asked about an odor from maps drawn on "a linen-base
material, which has a smooth surface."  This sounds like the linen
drafting material on which we, too, have maps.  Ours, however, have
no particular smell.  I double-checked before replying, and can
barely discern an odor with my nose at the center of the map.
Whatever is causing the smell on her maps should not be intrinsic to
the material and deserves investigation.

Robin Panza
Section of Birds, Carnegie Museum of Natural History
Pittsburgh  PA  USA

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                  Conservation DistList Instance 10:3
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