Enzymes

Geny Scorsetti <geny.scorsetti [at] libero__it> writes

>I am writing my thesis at the conservation school Enaip of Botticino
>in Italy on the use of enzymes. I turn to the Conservation DistList
>for help in finding articles and examples of works carried on with
>enzymatic methodologies especially towards wooden objects

At the Stuttgart State Academy of Art and Design (Staatliche
Akademie der Bildenden Kunste Stuttgart) several projects on enzymes
have been carried out on the dissolving an the removal of adhesives
and oil on paper. Research has been done on enzymes such as amylase,
protease and lipase. Please find more information in the following
articles:

    Agnes Bluher, Ingrid Schwarz, Gerhard Banik, Gerlinde Romer und
    Elisabeth Thobois.
    Eine gebrauchsfertige Enzymkompresse zur Ablosung von
    Starkekleisterverklebungen (1999)
    <URL:http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/iada/ta99_139.pdf>

    Lidle-Furst, M. 1999. Amylasegele zur lokalen Losung von
    Starkekleisterverklebungen. Zeitschrift fur Kunsttechnologie und
    Konservierung 13:5-18.

    Dirk Schonbohm, Agnes Bluher and Gerhard Banik.
    Enzyme in losemittelhaltigen Kompressen zum Entfernen von
    Klebern auf Starkebasis von tintenfrassgeschadigten
    Handschriften (2004)

    Ingrid Schwarz, A Pre-packaged alpha-Amylase Poulticing System:
    Albertina-Kompresse
    <URL:http://aic.stanford.edu/sg/bpg/annual/v19/bp19-26.html>

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me.

Ingrid Schwarz
Conservator
Saarlandmuseum
Stiftung Saarlandischer Kulturbesitz
Bismarckstr. 11-19
66119 Saarbrucken
+49 681 9964 206


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