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Laura Cunningham: Hi, my name is Laura Cunningham.
***ège Duqueyroix: And I am ***ège Duqueyroix.
LC: And we are conservators here at the Toronto Reference Library's Preservation and Digitization
Department. And we work in the Conservation lab, and we are prepping the Audubon that
you see here for display in our upcoming show. So, these are very special prints. They are
etchings that are based on a series of original water colours, painted by John Audubon. These
prints were all framed and treated in the late 1980's in preparation for a tour that
they took across Canada. For the show, we've picked a different colour mat. For these items,
we use acid free materials, 100% rag mats. And what we've done is, we're leaving the
item on its original backing board, because it's been hinged with Japanese tissue, and
we're gonna put this new mat on and then frame it, ready for the show.
LC: So, right now, ***ège is putting on a strip of tie-back tape, and it's what we're
using to attach the back mat to the front window mat.
[pause]
LC: Lightly brushing off the mat to make sure there's no lint or just little bits of loose
parts of the mat that might have gotten on to. You want to make sure it's a nice, clean
surface because we'll be putting it into a frame. There's a little bit of a wave to the
paper, which is called cockling. It's something that's kind of inherent in these prints. So,
we have the spacer to make sure there's no way that the print will ever touch the Plexiglas
that's in front of it.
[pause]
LC: We put a protective backing board on, which is a acid-free foam core. Let's turn
it around. I'm just gonna do this.
ND: Okay.
LC: It's all ready to go. At this point, we'll keep it safely in storage until we're ready
to install in the show later this month. So, thank you very much.