Comparative Research on Repair and Patching Materials of Silk Paintings

• Main Authors: Yu-Fen Hsiao, 蕭郁芬
• Other Authors: 張元鳳
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2009
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/74969357537541088564

碩士 === 國立臺南藝術大學 === 古物維護研究所 === 97 === In the past, conservators used to patch the silk paintings with long-preserved silk or the blank spaces of old silk paintings. Nowadays, artificial degraded silk similar to old silk can be created through accelerated aging technology. Initiated by Japan, the accelerated aging process is to apply acid or alkali to the silk and illuminate it with electron rays, such asγray. However, there are differences in painting silk due to different manufacturing process and the times. The painting silk of single weaving method or single degradation level can not meet the needs of different cases. This time, we obtained support layer whose texture was very similar to the original painting. They are in accord with each other in grain, color, and roundness of the silk thread. Therefore, the support layer was adopted as the filling materials for this case. The degraded silk newly-developed by Taiwan is similar to Japanese products in texture. As a result, the newly-developed degraded silk was chosen for trail and compared with the naturally aging silk to see their differences in efficiency. Patching in the same way, the matching degree with the original paintings, the feel during the repair process and the texture after color unification were all recorded in detail by pictures and text. This project is expected to be the effective reference for future choice and development of degraded silk. From repair project of Teng-Jiao Su’s fan, we’ve learned that the more the conditions and texture of the patching materials similar to the original painting, the greater the effects after color unification. The degraded silk developed by Taiwan had great performance in color unification and fragility of the silk. Nevertheless, more various kinds of man-made silk were needed, which is an obvious difficulty we met.