Leather dressing

Patricia L. Chalmers <chalmers [at] is__dal__ca> writes

>My predecessor here initiated a programme some years ago of using
>leather preservatives on the leather bindings in our rare book
>collection.
>...
>I thought I would ask what the current opinion is of
>these products, and the practice of using them.

I used few times the British Museum formula, it works very nice
especially when you have a problem of very dry leather, thought, you
must know that it tends to darken the leather so  I would suggest
first to check the effect and amount of darkening of the skin on a
small scale before the final application, you can find instructions
how to prepare the formula in the good old Plenderleith book it is
simple and economic as well.

Michael Maggen
Senior Paper Conservator
Israel Museum

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