Saving Your Treasures: Paper

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Types of Materials

PAPER

 

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Paper is manufactured from the cellulose fibers of plants, primarily cotton, flax, and wood. The fibers are reduced to a pulp and then formed into a felted sheet on a screen or a sieve. Types of paper include laid, woven, hand-made, or machine-made.

It is important to understand that parchment (or vellum) and papyrus are not considered paper. Parchment (or vellum) is animal hide covered in lime and dried under tension.

Papyrus is not considered paper. Papyrus is made from the moist outer skins of water reeds that have been lined up at right angles to each other and then beaten until the layers become interlocked.

What Is, and Is Not,
Paper		 Key Papermaking Terms
& Types of Paper		 How to
Identify Paper		 Pigments
vs. Dyes
Paper Problems What Causes Paper Problems? Safe Paper Content Sound Recording Media
Photographs Negatives & Film How to Care
for Your Photos

The Harvey Boston Studio
Photo Collection
Housing Documents
for Archives		 Housing Photographs
for Archives		 Housing Negatives, Film, Books, Newspapers, Scrapbooks, & Sound Recording Media How to Hinge & Matte
a Work of Art
Environment:
Light		 Environment: Relative Humidity & Temperature Environment: Airborne & Gaseous Pollutants Environment:
Mold
Examining, Handling, and Housing Paper-Based Materials Exhibition
Principles		 Preserving a Book
from 1730

TYPES OF MATERIALS

Ceramics Glass Metals Wood Textiles Paper Paintings Other