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Ruth Leon recommends… Conserving a delicate Renaissance drawing – Royal Collection

Ruth Leon recommends… Conserving a delicate Renaissance drawing – Royal Collection

Conserving a delicate Renaissance drawing – Royal Collection

Kate Stone, Paper Conservator for the Royal Collection,  demonstrates the extraordinary skill and fine workmanship required to repair an ancient document. This is another of those ‘how is it done’ videos that fascinate me.

The patience it requires is matched only by the devotion that is necessary for a conservator to restore an old object so that we can look at it without realising what goes into making it viewable by the public. I so admire the people, like Kate Stone, who do this painstaking and delicate work.

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