Tear repair of skins with minimal access to their backs: the treatment of a kayak
Auteur ou éditeur
Dignard, Carole
Date de publication
1992
Collation
1-8
Titre de la source
Leather conservation news
Numéro de la source
vol. 7, no. 2
Résumé
Reports on mending treatments on a stretched sealskin object, an Eskimo kayak. Describes four methods of repair, depending on the situation, geometry, and condition of the tear: 1) if the skin wall was not planarly distorted, a paper pulp fill was used; 2) torn areas directly above a frame element were backed and adhered to the frame; 3) the tear was sagging a few centimeters above a frame element and was supported by a piece of Ethaform (expanded polyethylene foam) and inserted beneath the tear, which was bridged and filled as in the two previous methods; and 4) tears without support under the torn area were supported with a tinned iron spatula from the underside until the paper patch was dry. The adhesives used were Acryloid B-72 in ethanol with high viscosity grade ethyl hydroxyethyl cellulose (EHEC) added. The repairs were examined four years later and found to be stable.
Notes
Also published in French: La réparation des peaux d'un kayak (Actes du 14e congrès annuel de l'IIC-CG, mai 1988, pp. 159-167)
Aussi publié en français: La réparation des peaux d'un kayak (Actes du 14e congrès annuel de l'IIC-CG, mai 1988, pp. 159-167)
