Evaluation of Commercial Consolidant Products Commonly Used for the Conservation of Wooden Artifacts

Abstract

Wood represents one of the most encountered materials in Romanian traditional buildings. Exposed to a wide variety of factors (including organic and inorganic pollutants, climatic factors or exposure to microbial colonization), the wood can lose not only its aesthetic characteristics but also its functional and mechanical properties [1]. [...]

Keywords

• preservation
• wooden artifacts
• commercial products
• characterization