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Title:

Shoemaker's Nightmare: Deterioration of Shoe Soles and Tests for the Conservation of degraded closed-cell Polyester Urethane Museum Objects

Document type:
Konferenzbeitrag
Contribution type:
Textbeitrag / Aufsatz
Author(s):
Janine Köppen; Susanne Brunner; Elena Gómez-Sánchez
Pages contribution:
94-103
Abstract:
As part of an ongoing research project at the Deutsches Bergbau-Museum Bochum, 20 original miners' shoes from the museum's collection were studies. They were produced in the late 1980s and today the outsoles made of polyurethane ester integral skin foam show an advanced state of deterioration: they have little cohesion left, are sticky and show degradation phenomena related to adipic acid release. The research presented here explores cold storage possibilities and consolidation tests on degrade...     »
Keywords:
Polyester urethane, integral skin foam, shoe sole, cold storage, stabilisation, adhesion
Editor:
Tim Bechthold
Book / Congress title:
Future Talks 019, Surfaces. Lectures and workshops on Technology and Conservation of the Modern, November 11/13 2019, Die Neue Sammlung, The Design Museum
Date of congress:
11.-13. November 2019
Publisher:
Die Neue Sammlung, The Design Museum
Publisher address:
München
Date of publication:
08.11.2021
Year:
2021
Print-ISBN:
978-3-9818165-9-4
Reviewed:
ja
Language:
en
Publication format:
Print
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