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HERITAGE RESTORERS - Glossary
1. Conservation - The discipline involving treatment, preventive care, and research directed toward the long-term safekeeping of cultural and natural heritage. It includes all the processes of looking after a place so as to retain its cultural significance.
2. Glazing - The application of transparent, colored paint over areas of other paint to alter the appearance or color.
3. Over painting - Paint applied to a painting over already dry areas. Sometimes used to include the original artist's glazes and scumbles; sometimes, especially in conservation, used to mean only later restorers' work. Similar to inpainting, which only fills in lost areas without covering original paint.
4. Preservation - Actions taken to prevent further changes or deterioration in objects, sites, or structures. It is especially linked to conservation and restoration.
5. Restoration - Use for the process of making changes to an object or structure so that it will closely approximate its state at a specific time in its history.
6. Strainer - Wood frames for the support of canvas or other textile that do not have expandable corners. Similar frames having expandable corners, called stretchers.
7. Stretcher - Devices or appliances for expanding a material making it taut, removing wrinkles, or the like; used especially with reference to frames upon which canvas or other textile is stretched for painting, having mitered corners that can be forced apart by wedges or some other device to firmly stretch the fabric. Similar frames that support canvas or other textile and do not have expandable corners are called strainers.
8. Varnish - A solution of a resin in a volatile solvent or a drying oil, which when spread out in a thin film, dries and hardens by evaporation of the volatile solvent, or by the oxidation of the oil, or both; applied as a protective coating or to enhance the appearance of the surface underneath.
9. Adaptation - Adaptation means modifying a place to suit proposed compatible uses.
10. Cultural heritage - Cultural heritage can be defined as those things and places associated with human activity. The definition is very broad, and includes both Indigenous and historic values.
11. Cultural significance - Cultural significance means aesthetic, historic, scientific, social or spiritual value for past, present or future generations.
12. Place - Place means a site, area, land, landscape, building or other works, group of buildings or other works, and may include components, contents, spaces and views.
13. Relic - Deposit, object or material evidence of human past.
14. Regeneration - Regeneration is the physical, economic and social revival of urban or rural places.
15. Significance - Significance is a term used to describe an item's heritage value. Values might include natural, Indigenous, aesthetic, historic, scientific or social importance.
16. Environmental heritage - means those places, buildings, works, relics, movable objects, and precincts, of State or local heritage significance.
17. Preservation - means maintaining the fabric of a place in its existing state and retarding deterioration.
18. Cultural Heritage Significance - is the value of a place in terms of its aesthetic, historic, scientific and social significance for the present community and future generations. Rarity, representativeness, condition, integrity and authenticity determine the place's degree of significance. This is often referred to as cultural significance or heritage significance.
19. Integrity - is the measure of present and likely long term viability of the heritage values of a place, or the ability of that place to restore itself or be restored, and the time frame for any restorative process.
20. Reconstruction - is similar to restoration but introduces new materials into the fabric.
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We have the best combination of trained & senior conservators, artists, museum experts, and architects.
For more information or a consultation, please call our Chief Conservator & Director,
Ms. Namita Jaspal at (91) 935.600.3285
or send email at namita.jaspal@heritagerestorers.com
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