Talk:BPG Filling of Losses

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Things to add/change[edit source]

This discussion page was started in July 2014 to collect ideas for improving the chapter. It includes the suggestions offered by the BPG Publications Committee, PCC Task Force in 2007-2009. Please feel free to add your own suggestions for improvement.

  • Add discussion of arriving at desired pulp tone by mixing pre-cast pulp in primary colors.

At the Annual Meeting in 2015, a discussion group consisting of Denise Stockman, Anne Downey, Jessica Crane and Amy Hughes was formed to brainstorm ideas to update this chapter.

GENERAL:

  • Expand "Purpose" statement.
  • Some materials are outdated.
  • A lot of statements can be elaborated. They might be mis-understood in over-simplified form.
  • This section should be thought of as an aesthetic activity. In contrast, "Filling by Lining" is stabilization.
  • Overall I agree, but I still think the existing section about filling by lining is important on this page. You can add toned tissue during a lining still or have an overall toned lining paper as a visual compensation technique, which still falls under this page I feel. The more options on the page, the better --Sandrine Blais (talk) 17:34, 28 November 2025 (UTC)
  • Language can be updated. Specific phrases to reconsider: "rotating shaft tool"; "fine linen handkerchief" and "sugar for toning".
  • This information in this section will have a lot of overlap with Inpainting. Rather than merging, links can be added between the two.
  • Materials can be integrated into a discussion of technique instead of in list form.
  • I think a discussion could be good, but rather than removing the list I might prioritize adding photos or linking to the materials and equipment page --Sandrine Blais (talk) 17:34, 28 November 2025 (UTC)
  • A section on digital fills should be added.
  • A section on temporary/ easily removable fills should be added.


  • Expand the 'purpose' section to include more considerations: when/ why
  • Remove the section on overall lining section.
  • Reconsider this technique in fills shaped by dry western paper: "Teasing fibers at the loss edge of artifact..."
  • Coffee and tea are no longer used for toning. Toning through heat is no longer used.

Headers that could be added at some point in the future with content[edit source]

These sections were either on the page or on the discussion page and were empty, so I deleted them but wanted to preserve them here: Special Considerations, Temporary/ Easily Removable, Structurally Unattached, Overlay --Sandrine Blais (talk) 16:37, 28 November 2025 (UTC)

Clean up of talk page[edit source]

  • This whole talk page needs to be compared to the actual page to see which version to keep, then the talk page needs to be cleaned up --Sandrine Blais (talk) 18:34, 27 November 2025 (UTC)
  • In November 2025, there was a re-organization of the main page planned on the Talk page, which I agreed with overall. I implemented the changes that were planned here and deleted the draft from the Talk page, in order to see people's suggestions more easily. --Sandrine Blais (talk) 17:34, 28 November 2025 (UTC)

Digital fills[edit source]

I added a whole section about digital fills using a project I did a few years ago. I feel like this maybe should exist as a blogpost instead and be linked here, so this section might change in the near future --Sandrine Blais (talk) 18:34, 27 November 2025 (UTC)

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