Knite cunvas unroled in studio.

"When we uncrated them," said conservator Felicity Campbell, who was hired to head the project, "they were as crumbly as cannoli. The murals had become so dried out and brittle, I doubted that they could ever be safely unrolled, let alone resurrected. In Knight's day, they had been glued to the wall with a very tenacious lead adhesive, and then, years later, virtually hacked off. There are still places on the wall where bits of the original canvas remain." .

—Richard Milner, The Living Museum