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The National Trust possesses large quantities of works of art on paper, photographs, globes, rooms with historic wallpaper, and a number of important libraries which are indigenous to the houses in which they are found. Paper and book-bindings are highly sensitive to adverse environmental conditions, and a combination of preventive conservation and studio and in situ work are required in order to minimise further deterioration. Framed works of art on paper are conserved in such a way that they look as if they have been left untouched, and damaged bookbindings are repaired in ways which avoid rebinding and the loss of original material.

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Surviving, conserved wallaper before reinstatement in the Red Drawing Room at Uppark, West Sussex

Hand-printing wallpaper in the traditional manner from a cherry wood block to replace areas destroyed by fire.
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Conserved and reprinted wallpaper integrated in the Red Drawing Room at Uppark, clearly showing unfaded areas which were protected from light by paintings or mirrors.

Spines damaged by being pulled out of the shelf incorrectly and then badly repaired.
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Reversed leather (suede) binding severely damaged by sunlight on the spine but also bleached on its board because it was next to a smaller book.


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