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ABOUT ME
I am a Conservator who studied the Degree on Conservation and
Restoration of Cultural Heritage at the National University of Arts
(UNA) in Buenos Aires. In the last 4 years I have been specializing my
work in Paper Conservation at Archives in the National Archives of
Argentina and National Archives of Ireland.

I constantly continue my education with internships, courses, seminars

and works in the field.

I have experience working at:

- Archives Taking care of the examination, documentation, inventorization, preventive
- Museums conservation, conservation at storages and exhibitions, conservation and
- Historic Buildings restoration treatments.
INDEX
PAPER CONSERVATION
NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF IRELAND
- Scholarship in Conservation Practice
- Compensation Files Project
- Voluntearing

NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF ARGENTINA

- Documents conservation
- Maps conservation

WALL PAINTINGS AND POLYCHROMES PRESERVATION

CHURCH “NUESTRA SEÑORA DE LA MERCED”
- Restoration project
PAPER CONSERVATION NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF IRELAND
Scholarship in Conservation Practice 2014-2015

Conservation repair work on the documents as part of the Crowley Bequest Project.
The objetive of the project is to repair the documents when is necessary to improve its integrity in the future manipulation.

CSO/RP, Chief Secretary’s Office Registered Papers series, 1818-1853.

Description: This documents are letters, petitions, memoranda, architectural drawings, etc.
Written manuscripts in carbon and iron gall ink on cotton or linen handmade paper.
Condition: They are mostly in good general condition. The deterioration that they present, like tears, fragile edges, folded pages are
result of the incorrect manipulation and storage from the past.

TREATMENTS
Surface cleaning of all documents.
Humidification of some documents to remove creases and folds and then flattened into a press.
Repair the tears, frayed edges and fractures when is consider neccesary.
Replace acidic threads with cotton ones.

CSO/RP/1827/475
Surface cleaning document.
Documents are cleaned, humidified, flattened and repair.

CSO/RP/1827/488/9 Before and after treatment. CSO/RP/1827/24/2 Before and after treatment.

Resewing.
All the acidic threads in the documents are raplaced with cotton tape; following the original technic of sewing.

CSO/RP/1146/1/2 The green acidic

thread is replaced for the cotton one.
Within the CSO/RP some materials needed to be conserve in a different way from the regular procedures. Some examples are
large documents, like big maps, documents on copy paper, small bindings, etc.

Copy Paper flattening

Special care is taken to humidify Copy Paper documents due to their fragility.
They are gently humidify in a tray with damp blotters and covered with Mylar to produce a progressive
and slow humidification.Then flattened between blotters and weight.
Large format Map CSO/RP/1827/409/7
Description: Architecture drawing. Inks and watercolors on paper, with some anotations in pencil.
Condition: The map was folded so presents fold marks and a hole in one of the marks.

TREATMENTS
Humidification, flattening and repair. Because of the sensitive watercolours this map was humidify with an ultrasonic humidifier in a chamber.

Repair of the hole with

japanese paper (Tonosawa 27gr)
CSO/RP/1146/25 Small Binding.
This book was resewn in order to be able to open it and take off the large pages to repair them. All the pages were surface clean,
flattened, re folded to fit in the book structure, and repair when was neccesary.

CSO/RP/1826/1698/7 Vellum Document.

This document written on a vellum foil has a paper stamp attached with a ribbon, which is very fragil to handle. In this case a special
support was design with archival paper to proctect the stamp and keep it holded to the sheet to obtain a safer manipulation.
CSO/RP&SC/1821/271/A Paper infill
Document for digitalization. It nedeed to be repair with
a aesthetic finish.

Condition: the document presents missing parts. Is in good general conditions.

TREATMENT
It was use japanese paper (Tonosawa 27gr), to match the original color,
and wheat starch paste.
Conservation of a Volume and Vellum Map, 1826-32.
Description: Volume of bound documents, including deeds, maps and correspondence. Covers and spine are lined in a coated vellum.
17th century vellum map of the Wately lands, King´s County, that has been removed from the volume. The map was written
and drawn in different colours of inks.
Condition: the map and volume are in good general condition. The map is too large so it has been folded into the volume, that produced
important creases. The corner with the shield is the most creased area. The green pigment is not stable, possibly because of its old binder.
TREATMENTS
Volume Dry and wet surface cleaning was carried out. Repairing of tears.
Map It was decided to remove the map from the volume and store flat because of its large dimensions. Dry surface cleaning was carried out.
Reshape of the map by applying local weights during the period of 4 weeks using the environment humidity in the studio.
The objetive was to flatten the map by applying lowers levels of moisture.
Consolidation of green pigments with gelatin and a fine brush, using a magnifying lens.
Tha map was lightly humidified in a chamber with an ultrasonic humidifier and stretched in a frame. It was localy humidify in some areas
with an ultrasonic mist applied with a small cannula. Tha map was flattened under weight during several day and re-housed in a Mylar®
pocket.
Volume

Covers before and after cleaning with smoke and wishab sponges. A thin layer of dirt was removed with CMC 1% and a swab.
Surface clean and repair insitu of 4 smaller paper maps inside the volume.

Vellum Map removed from volume to be treated and re-housed.

Flattening with weights. Detail of the shield during treatment.

Map folded causing deep creases.

Consolidation of green
pigment with gelatine 1%
Humidifying the map in the ultrasonic chamber. Stretching vellum using a frame. Local humidification with a cannula.

Before and after treatment.

Details of the shield. Map re-housed in Mylar®.
Cleaning 1,000 mould volumes in the Four Courts Vaults 11 & 12

Description: 1,000 board cover volumes located on shelves.

Condition: volumes with a light covering of dormant mould on the board cover and spines.
Responsabilities: this project was carried out with one of my colleagues at the National Archives, Charlotte Anstis.
Managing of time and materials was required, and coordination with members of the staff working at Four Courts.

PROCEDURE
Volumes are taken from shelves and cleaned the mould with smoke sponge.
Volumes are wiped with a solution of ethanol (with 20% of water) with a slightly moistened cloth, in order to
remove any additional mould residue.
After air dry, books are re-housed in acid free boxes and placed back on shelves.

Detail of mould book

Before cleaning Dry cleaning Wet cleaning Air drying Re-housing

 NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF IRELAND
Compensation Files Project 2014 (6 weeks contract)
Conservation work project
Property Losses (Ireland) Committee 1916- PLIC/1
Description: documents are in their original manilla file paper covers. Diffrerents amounts of files are secured together in several ways,
like paper clips, straight pins and brass butterfly with cardboard for the covers, they are all metalics.
Condition: overall condiction is good. The covers are extremely dirty, the surface of the sheets are dirt some sheets are torn and folded.
PROCEDURE
The objetive of this project is to improve the storage of this collection, cleaning all documents, removing torn poor quality paper from the
back of the covers and all metal fastenings and re-housing the files into conservation quality folders.

Replacing metal fastenings with

plastic ended treasury tags. It has
to be long enough to let the
document be completely open. Surface cleaning of all documents

Document clean and re-housed, with plastic treasury tag.

All the metalic

items are
removed
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Voluntearing 2014 (4 months)

Protection of historic photos by attaching photon flaps.

“Grange Gorman/Death and Discharge/ Clinical Records.
Description: Folders conteaning clinical information of each patient, with a reference number and a photo.

PROCEDURE
Placing squares of photon paper over each photograph making sure that it is all well cover. For this purpose in some cases the text above the photo remained
below the photon paper. This one is placed at the top between lines of text and in the side over the edge of the record.

To adhere the photon paper we used Klucel G made up to 10-15% w/v with ethanol.
It was applied with a stiff hog brush on strips of approximately 10 cm x 2 cm of Spiders wet strength tarantula tissue.
These must be slightly shorter than the photon paper to ensure that they don´t obstruct lifting the flap up to view the photograph.

The text under the photon paper can still be seen Applying Klucel G at the tissue makng Placing the tissue half between text lines and
lifting the flap slight pressure half in the photon paper
Project in preservation of large maps.
Valuation Office OL 11 Maps. The collection includes 11.000 map
Description: large maps on paper mounted on linen. They present diferent types and colors of inks.

PROCEDURE
- Dry surface cleaning at the obverse and reverse of the map.
The reverse of the maps are cleaned using a vacuum. Only maps
with a dark layer of dirt on the surface are cleaned with an extra
hard Wishab (blue back removed) and a brush before vacuumed.
The front is cleaned with smoke sponge and brush.
- Aqueous surface cleaning at the obverset of the map.
The front of the maps are cleaned using swabs. Then the maps are
flattened in a hydraulic press.

Consolidation, repairing and flattened

Most of the maps presents damage through use: curls and dog-ears, frayed edges, paper fracture. They also present previous interventions and in some areas
they are detached from the linen or they are broken in half. The front of the maps are consolidated with wheat startch paste applied with a brush.

Fractured and detached parts of the map pleaced and adhered on the linen At the back, the linen is also consolidated with wheat
starch paste, adhering it to the paper map.
In case of missing support (if there is map at the front)
linen repairs are added with the wheat starch paste.
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Paper conservation 2010-2013
Conservation of 17th-18th century manuscripts documents.
Cconditioning the material for digitalization and storage.

Colony Division. Governance and Accounting, 1600-1800.

Description: bound manuscripts written in ferrogalic ink.
Condition: the collection was deteriorated because of its bad conditions of storage, it has been exposed to high humidity and a non appropriate housing.
Presents different types of deterioration, like bent and fragile paper, fractures, missings, worn bindings, mould, foxing, old repairs, oxidized and
acidic paper, inks migration and transfers, ferrogalic inks corrosion. Pests infestation, insects and rodents.

PROCEDURES
Surface cleaning of the manuscripts. Dry surface cleaning with soft brush and eraser if necessary.
Flattening. For the curls, folds and dog-ears the documents are humidified with an hydroalcoholic solution (70%) and flattened with weight and a
small an adjustable iron. For the frayed edges that are small and more fragile we used bone folders and Mylar to correct the folds.

Correcting folds with bone folders and Mylar

Document with surface dirt After cleaning Flattening with heat and weight.
Removing previous interventions and repairing tears.
Oxidated old materials used in previous restoration

Folded and glued page, which After treated mechanically and with moisture.
covers the writings

After removing the old intervention the paper was consolidated

with methyl celullose and japanese paper
Aconditioning fragile and deteriorated documents
Interleaving with acid free paper to prevent the oxidation transfer between foils and to help to stabilize if the sheet is too fragile.

Fragile paper consolidated with japanese paper and

semi-encapsulated with Mylar.

Semi-encapsulated of foils with

Mylar folders to hold very fragile
sheets that can't be repair.
Re aconditioning storage
Re-housing with phace-boxes and individual folders made with acid free paper for each document. And placed in
conservation boxes.

Bound documents are wrapped with synthetic materials like Tyvek.

Preservation of large maps.
Topographic Plane of Buenos Aires, 1860 Map,
Description: large maps on paper mounted on linen.
Condition: they presented previous interventions that needed to be removed. Very fragil and brittle, with missing parts and fold marks.
TREATMENT
The map were cleaned with eraser and brush, the old repairs were removed with methyl cellulose and scalpel. The repairs where treated with
japanese paper and methyl cellulose.
Consolidating de paper of the map onto the linen

Removing old repairs and oxidated varnish

Wall paintings and polychromes preservation. CHURCH “NUESTRA Sra. DE LA MERCED”
Work at Side Chapels, Lower Choir and the Mayor Altarpiece Mural paintings 2009-2010

PROCEDURE All the paintings surface were cleaned, when it was necessary consolidating and colour re-touching techniques were applied.
Also previous interventions , discoloured varnishes and over-paintings were removed.
TREATMENTS
Dry and aqueous surface cleaning. All the dirt was removed with a brush and a vacuum. Then neutral detergent was applied with cotton. If the paint is fragile
or loose it was consolidated first. The gildings were treated too.
Consolidation of loose, flaking paint and paint craquings. The consolidants were applied by different techniques depending on each case.
Previous interventions were removed mechanically with scalpels or with solvents applied with a swab. Different technics of colour re-touching were used.

Before cleaning Before and after cleaning Cleaning gildings with ammoniacal Consolidainge with a syringe
water

Consolidation with Polivinil Alcohol After color re-touching Removing over-painting with a scalpel Colour retouching is applied with
applied with brush on a tissue paper pigments and gum arabic or watercolours