GIMBRETPaper & book conservation
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Conservation · Brussels

Your damaged papers and books, conserved to museum standards

Letters, drawings, prints, posters, manuscripts, books: send me a few photos and I will tell you what is possible and at what cost. The estimate is free.

  • Former restorer-binder at the BnF
  • Assistant Professor at La Cambre
  • Conservator at the MUMASK museum
Mégane Gimbret lifting an old paper strip from the edge of a painting on paper with a spatula
Brown line drawing of two men, crossed horizontally by a white tear
Before
The same drawing after the tear was repaired, with the line continuous again
After

Before, after

A drawing crossed by a tear

A tear ran right across the sheet, through both faces. Realigned fibre by fibre and reinforced on the back, it has disappeared.

Free resource

Water damage: the first-48-hours sheet

The steps that save your papers and books, and the ones that harm them, on one page to print and keep at hand. Get it by email.

Or read the guide online →

Studio journal

The whole journal →

A paper or a book to save?

A few photos are enough. The estimate is free and commits you to nothing.

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