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Providing hands on advice for the conservator, Architectural Tiles: Conservation and Restoration is a unique and valuable guide. Topics covered offer practical guidance on conservation and restoration techniques including the problems of manufacture, cleaning, replacement or repair and mortars. Techniques are illustrated by comprehensive case studies, against a background of the role of past architects and designers in historic schemes.

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...broad and far reaching, beyond what the title implies. ...thorough in approach... - The Tile Heritage of America E-news clearly an important resource for any tile conservator. Glazed Expressions

Lesley Durbin's book is broad and far reaching, beyond what the title implies. She is thorough in her approach beginning with the introduction that covers tiles from medieval pavements to early 20th century interiors. The book is a reference resource for the conservation and restoration of tiles, an important tool for anyone engaged in the care and keeping of historic tiles in situ or for someone who may wish to remove tiles and care for them responsibly. There are many black and white images of tiles showing different types of damage as well as many before and after conservation pictures. All in all, I believe it to be a well-researched, useful publication for a select audience. - The Tile Heritage of America E-news .it contains a wealth of useful information for anyone who is confronted with problems of deterioration, damage or detachment of tiles either inside or outside a building. This book has a number of very positive features. Firstly, the reader is always taken clearly and systematically through each stage of a conservation process; secondly, the chapters are organised around a series of sub-headings, which usefully serve to summarise the content that follows; and thirdly, the writing- while necessarily technically complex at times- is generally clear and easy to understand. The book concludes with a series of conservation case studies which clearly illuminate and contextualise much that has been previously discussed.clearly an important resource for any tile conservator. Glazed Expressions

!broad and far reaching, beyond what the title implies. !thorough in approach! - The Tile Heritage of America E-news clearly an important resource for any tile conservator. Glazed Expressions

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The author began work in architectural ceramic conservation in 1983 with the Ironbridge Gorge Museum, and became head of the conservation department the following year. From 1987 to 1990 she moved to Naylor Conservation and worked on sculpture restoration, but returned to Ironbridge in 1990 to open Jackfield Conservation Studio as an independent workshop within the Jackfield Tile Museum. She has published several articles and her projects include the successful completion of the Royal Doulton Frieze 'Pottery Through The Ages' by Bayes, the largest piece of polychromatic ceramic sculpture in the world.

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