Project Gutenberg on Nostr: Restoration Recipes Need to clean your sixteenth-century distemper painting? Try a ...
Restoration Recipes
Need to clean your sixteenth-century distemper painting? Try a piece of bread (at your own risk).
One simple trick, according to the internet, is that you can clean practically anything with bread. This, like all hyped miracle cures, should be taken with a very large grain of salt… and maybe some milk, mustard,... and a host of other ingredients proposed for cleaning painting over the centuries.
By Matthew Wills via @JSTOR_Daily
https://daily.jstor.org/restoration-recipes/
#art #painting
Need to clean your sixteenth-century distemper painting? Try a piece of bread (at your own risk).
One simple trick, according to the internet, is that you can clean practically anything with bread. This, like all hyped miracle cures, should be taken with a very large grain of salt… and maybe some milk, mustard,... and a host of other ingredients proposed for cleaning painting over the centuries.
By Matthew Wills via @JSTOR_Daily
https://daily.jstor.org/restoration-recipes/
#art #painting