Conserving Waterlogged Rope: A Review of Traditional Methods and Experimental Research with Polyethylene Glycol

The excavation of Sieur de la Salle's ship, La Belle, yielded a large amount of waterlogged rope requiring conservation. A history of hemp and rope manufacture is reviewed to assist in the identification of the materials and rope-work recovered from the La Belle, as well as to assist in selecti...

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Main Author: McCaskill, Jennifer R.
Other Authors: Smith, Charles W.
Format: Others
Language:en_US
Published: 2010
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2009-05-571
http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2009-05-571