Dear Consdist,

Wishing to gather comments of a mid way treatment rinsing of a gouache.

This paper is expected to be rag / hand made paper with the graph lines
screen printed onto it. That is why it absorbed discolouration over the
years.

Treatment:
Humidfied object placed on two layers of Paraprint;  the photo tray with
clean water was placed fairly high above the gouache. We found that the
higher the upper clean water was the better the syphon of water dripping
through to the dirty trough catchment area. My 5 litre bottle was filled
with discolouration from this one object (see photos)

This gouache was left on the saturated Paraprint for five hours. We did
lift the object from each of its margins to improve it lying as flat as
possible on the Paraprint.

On drying discolouration showed in places within the media.

Has anyone experienced this? And has anyone placed a solution of bleach in
the upper tray and it 'lightened' the work on paper'?

Thank you,

Suzanne

Suzanne Press & Associates Ltd
Conservation of Works of Art on Paper
Suzanne Press ACR
Georgian House, 10 Bury Street, Flat 14,
London SW1Y 6AA
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