Changes in some properties of aged and historical parchment

Restaurator

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 138-157

  Abdel Maksoud, Gomaa ^a   Marcinkowska, Ewa ^b  

^a Cairo Univ   (Egypt)

^b CRACOW UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGING OF MATERIALS; ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; MUSEUMS; SHRINKAGE; SORPTION;

PAPER CONSERVATION; PARCHMENT PAPERS;

PAPER PRODUCTS;

EID: 0034499181     PISSN: 00345806     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/REST.2000.138     Document Type: Article

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