Up Close and Personal in the Winterthur Textile Conservation department

[pinkleader]

Joy Gardiner, Conservator at Winterthur
Up Close and Personal- in the Textile Conservation department
Notes from the workshop:

-Keep backings and such together. Acidity in wood eventually goes away, so keep frames, textiles and documents together depending on age.
-Sampler being worked on was glued to backing using a hide glue, and needed to be removed

Comments

[elmsley_rose]

This is really cool! Thanks :-)

[pinkleader]

Have you seen the gallery guide? The white silk apron and the baby cap discussed above are pictured in it: http://www.winterthur.org/pdfs/NeedleworkGalleryGuide.pdf

[elmsley_rose]

Thanks - I'd read it before, but hadn't taken particular notice of those pieces....

[grnvixen]

Sounds like an expansion of the class from the conference. Thanks so much for posting your notes. It's fascinating to see the science in all this.