Stain Reduction

Instructor: Lauren Fair, Objects Conservator and Lab Head for Objects Conservation, Assistant Director of Conservation, and Affiliated Associate Professor, WUDPAC

Goals for the seminar:

- Learn about the different types of ceramic staining and their causes.
- Become familiar with commonly used chelators, poulticing materials, and bleaches.
- Apply different bleaches, chelators and poultices to a ceramic study object. Compare and contrast the various methods of chelating.

Before Stain Reduction