Cleaning wallpaper

A research project on the effects of powdered erasers, kneaded
erasers and block erasers is currently carried out at the
Netherlands Institute for Cultural Heritage. You can contact Wilma
Roelofs, who is in charge of this project, at <nwo [at] icn__nl>.

Some further articles of interest are:

    Perlstein, E.J., Cabelli, D., King, A., Indictor, N, Effects of
    eraser treatment on paper, J>A>I>C> 22,1 1993-1-12

    Cowan J., Dry methods for surface cleaning of paper, Technical
    Bulletin 11, Ottawa (Canadian Conservation Institute), March
    1986

    Moffat, E., Laver, M. Erasers and related dry cleaning
    materials, CCI Analytical Report ARS no. 1738, Ottawa (Canadian
    Institute) 1981

    Paper conservation Catalogue, part 14, Surface Cleaning AIC/BPG
    1992

Good luck with the wall paper,

Robien van Gulik
Teylers Museum
Haarlem, The Netherlands

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