Fading by Light of Organic Dyes on Textiles and Other Materials

Abstract

EDITOR'S NOTE. The reader of Studies in Conservation, accustomed though he is to tackle a wide variety of topics, may baulk at the following review. However, it is desirable that reviews at this level of specialization should occasionally appear, and the reasons are briefly as follows. Advances in conservation must be published because progress is obstructed where knowledge is not disseminated. These advances are ~f many kinds, and range f,om new techniques in the handling of materials to theoretical studies such as the present article. All should be fairly represented in Studies in Conservation. Some are inevitably so specialized that they will not be understood by all readers. But !intil these highly specialized aspects of conservation grow to a volume when they can ~fill a journal of their own, the place for their publication remains the general journal, which is Studies in Conservation. The subject of photochemistry in particular is lif.~ely to