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    Textiles Conservation

  • RCA/V&A Conservation

    Conservation Research Theses

  • Copies of Conservation Research Theses are held in the RCA Library.

    2008

    PhD
    How damage alters meaning : an analysis of the conservation and display of war-damaged objects in war museums
    Helen Evans

    2007

    MPhil
    Reconstruction of Nicholas Hilliard's materials and techniques
    Timea Tallian

    2005

    PhD
    The excimer laser ablation of picture varnishes: an evaluation with reference to light-induced deterioration
    Charalampos Theodorakopoulos

    2004

    MPhil
    An application of risk analysis for the conservation management of photographic archives
    Maria Troupkou

    2003

    PhD
    Cleaning marble, oolitic limestone and terracotta surfaces: a topographical assessment and comparison of the effects of conservation cleaning treatments on architectural materials
    Pedro Miguel da Costa Gaspar

    MPhil
    An evaluation of composition ornament in Britain from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth century
    Victoria Jayne Doran

    MPhil
    Risky business?: Heritage hospitality: the impact of special events on the contents of historic buildings
    Nicky J. Ingram

    PhD
    The historical and technical development of gloss housepaints, with reference to their use by twentieth-century artists
    Harriet A. L. Standeven

    2002

    PhD
    The chemical characterisation of binding media in 20th century art
    Francesca Cappitelli

    PhD
    Virtual conservation: the reconstruction of a fragmented object with the aid of the three-dimensional computer models
    Athanasios Velios

    2001

    PhD
    Computer related imaging in conservation: the visualisation in three dimensions of the original and present appearances of European polychrome sculpture using laser scan data, presented in virtual and enhanced reality environments
    Angie Geary

    MPhil
    Risk management in preventive conservation
    Christos Maris

    1999

    PhD
    Byobu & Fusuma: developing an approach to the conservation of Japanese screens through historical & technical study and an investigation of current practices
    Sandra Grantham

    MPhil
    The chemical and visual characterisation of artificial patinas on bronze sculpture
    Lyndsey Morgan

    MPhil
    Stretching the lifetime of a synthetic material: characterisation of modern elastane fibres
    Silvia Valussi

    1996

    MPhil
    Mounting & framing in British photographic exhibitions 1851–1916
    Magdalena Kozera

    MPhil
    Applications of holographic interferometry to the study of museum objects
    Konstandia Vigli-Papadaki

    1995

    MPhil
    Applications of holographic interferometry in preventive conservation and the diagnosis of works of art
    Vivi Tornari

    1994

    MPhil
    "On gilded clouds...": a study of the materials of oil on plaster murals of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries in England
    Jane Davies

    1993

    MPhil
    A study of the materials and techniques of English portrait miniaturists from 1700–1820
    Janet Gilburt

    MPhil
    An investigation of photographic processes in prints of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century with emphasis on the platinum image
    Jacqueline Rees