RSM Art Conservation

We conserve a wide range of objects, including wooden objects and furniture, ethnographic artefacts, ceramics, glassware, metal objects, stone, natural materials (such as bone, ivory, leather), natural history objects, plastics, paper mache, and much more.

The textiles we conserve include tapestries, samplers, clothing, historical and military garments, religious garments, artworks, soft furnishings, lace works, ethnographic and foreign textiles, rugs and carpets, upholstery and leather goods.

Treatment of paintings may include:

• Surface cleaning
• Varnish removal
• Overpaint removal
• Surface consolidation (flaking or powdering paint and pigment layers)
• Removal & treatment of mould surface bloom & blanching
• Tear repair
• Flattening (removal/reduction of distortions)
• Strip & full lining
• Restretching
• Substrate repair (paintings on board) and more.