Researchers from the Institute for Sustainable Heritage of the University College London, the Heritage Science Lab Ljubljana, and Sichuan Museum in Chengdu, China, recently published the article titled: »Characterisation and durability of contemporary unsized Xuan paper«. Xuan paper is a traditional Chinese handmade paper often used for Chinese calligraphy and painting, and is the preferred [...]

For the first time, a medieval rag-paper based collection has been surveyed using the non-destructive analytical instrument developed in the project SurveNIR. The collection of the Classense library in Ravenna is extraordinarily significant, with more than 800,000 items, among which is a collection of works of Dante Alighieri. […]

At the Heritage Science Laboratory Ljubljana, a substantial research collection of historic paper is available to researchers through E-RIHS.si. The collection was assembled and fully characterised in the EU research project SurveNIR, coordinated by professor Matija Strlic. Through the use of a number of multivariate data visualisation and analysis tools, it was shown that acidity [...]