Phytate - Sequence of treament steps
Birgit Reissland, Karin Scheper and Sabine Fleischer (2007)
The following steps are necessary in the prescribed sequence to carry out a complete calcium phytate / calcium bicarbonate treatment including sizing and mending:
- Preparation of a rigid support
- Pre-wetting with Ethanol
- Treatment* with water
- Treatment* with calcium phytate
- Treatment* with water
- Treatment* with calcium bicarbonate
- Pre-drying
- Surface sizing with gelatine
- Mending of tears
- Drying
* Treatment steps that involve aqueous solutions can be carried out as immersion or as suction table treatment.