| Description |
1 online resource (275 p.) |
| Contents |
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Illustration credits -- Introduction -- Bibliography and further reading -- 1 Looking at tile schemes -- Introduction -- Medieval pavements -- Delftware interiors -- Nineteenth- and early twentieth-century interior schemes -- Bibliography and further reading -- 2 Tile-making: past and present -- Introduction -- Medieval tiles -- Early tile-making -- Degradation associated with manufacturing techniques -- Contemporary tile-making techniques in the medieval style -- Delftware tiles |
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Early tile-making in the Netherlands -- Degradation associated with manufacturing techniques -- Current tile-making techniques -- Factory restoration techniques -- Nineteenth-century tiles -- Industrial mass production of nineteenth-century floor tiles -- Degradation of floor tiles associated with production techniques -- Industrial mass production of nineteenth-century glazed wall tiles -- Degradation of glazed tiles associated with production techniques -- Current tile manufacturing techniques for restoration projects -- Conclusion -- Bibliography and further reading |
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3 Mortar and construction methods used in historic tile schemes -- Introduction -- Construction methods in the medieval period -- Early lime mortar -- Mortar mixes for resetting -- Construction methods in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries -- Fixing methods and materials in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries -- Mortar and resetting for seventeenth- and eighteenth-century tiles -- Short case study: Carshalton bath house -- Construction methods in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries -- Problems connected with the early use of Portland cement |
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Mortars and adhesives for resetting nineteenth- and early twentieth-century tiles -- Conclusion -- Bibliography and further reading -- 4 Principles of conservation for architectural tile schemes -- Introduction -- Pre-industrial age -- Post-industrial age -- Conservation in the USA -- Bibliography and further reading -- 5 Methods of conservation -- Introduction -- Surveys -- Historical context -- Description -- Identifying deterioration -- Identifying wear and tear due to natural ageing -- Treatment recommendations within a survey -- Role of the conservator as consultant -- Cleaning |
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Hard and soft bodies -- Medieval tile pavements -- Seventeenth- and eighteenth-century glazed wall tiles -- Nineteenth- and twentieth-century tiles -- Paint removal from glazed tiles -- Salts -- Biological growth -- Continuing care of historic and restored glazed tile schemes -- Advice to others -- Ideal environment -- Consolidation of mortar -- Degradation and consolidation of medieval mortar -- Causes of degradation in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century mortars -- Consolidation of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century mortars -- Causes of degradation in nineteenth- and twentieth-century mortars |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
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Consolidation of nineteenth- and twentieth-century mortars |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781317683742 |
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1317683749 |
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