Kilka uwag o kołtrynach, ich technologii i konserwacji

• Authors: Ciechańska Marzenna , Charytoniuk Józef

Title variants

EN

Several Remarks on Woodprinted Wall Coverings, Their Technology and Conservation

• Languages of publication: PL EN

Abstracts

EN

One of their rarer objects which we come across in the conservation workshop are decorative paper wall coverings. During the sixteenth-eighteenth century, woodcut wall coverings, known in Polish as kołtryny or szpelery, enjoyed great popularity. They survived only in fragments owing to the very character of the objects, made from paper which is very susceptible to damage and exposed to the direct impact of harmful factors, and primarily due the limited time of their use, which led to an intentional removal of the coverings. The preserved coverings comprise unique historical monuments preserved up to our times in an accidental and frequently curious manner — for example as a stiffening for a seventeenth-century chasuble, a part of a book cover, or on a beamed ceiling in an old house. Fragments were also found on similar beams in a chamber situated on the second — storey of the Collegium Juridicum in 53 Grodzka Street in Krakow. The problems faced by conservators and historians of art entail dating. Precise ascertainments are usually impossible since the coverings are anonymous or with no — extant signatures, and the time of their origin can be described only by determining the ante quern and post quern dates. Paper wall coverings were executed by resorting to the technique of wood cutting. The ornament was cut out on a wooden block, printed by stamping, and eventually tinted. The sheets of paper were glued together, in this way creating a larger whole, and affixed to the wall with pegs or successively glued onto the foundation. The preserved coverings are in an extremely unsatisfactory state (over 70% are damaged).

Keywords

PL

kołtryny; obicia ścienne; obicia drzeworytowe; kołtryny papierowe; konserwacja kołtryn; kołtryny krakowskie

• Publisher: Narodowy Instytut Dziedzictwa
• Journal: Ochrona Zabytków
• Year: 1997
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 275-282

Dates

published

1997

Contributors

author

Ciechańska Marzenna

author

Charytoniuk Józef

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Identifiers

ISSN

0029-8247