00:00Almost every gleaming example of beautifully restored historic wallpaper in the UK and
00:12beyond owes its new life to one person.
00:15Look at that.
00:17Whoa.
00:18Yeah, it's in quite a state, isn't it?
00:21Yeah.
00:22We will start by surface cleaning it using one of these incredible conservation smoke
00:26sponges which you can be very delicate with but are very, very effective.
00:30We will strip it off all these backings and this will horrify you.
00:35We'll give it a wash.
00:36Oh, wow.
00:38We have huge silk screens that we lay them on and spray water through.
00:43Every single colour gets tested to make sure that it's not going to be affected by water
00:47and we work out the timings exactly and then we line it onto paper as close to the original
00:53paper they would have used as possible.
00:55This is a beautiful handmade Chinese mulberry paper made from the inner bark of the mulberry
01:01tree.
01:02It's very soft.
01:03It is.
01:04And in washing it and treating it, it becomes like that again.
01:07You know, it gets its life back and its brilliance.
01:10I mean, look at the quality of painting.
01:12This is amazing.
01:13You can see all the tiny brush strokes.
01:14It's exquisite.
01:15Yes.
01:16I mean, this must have taken so long.
01:17It must have done.
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