Textile Conservation

✍ Scribed by Frances Lennard, Patricia Ewer

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 338
• Series: Conservation and Museology
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Textile Conservation: Advances in Practice demonstrates the development in the role and practice of the textile conservator and captures the current diversity of textile conservators’ work.

The book focuses on four major factors which have influenced development in textile conservation practice since the 1980s: the changing context, an evolution in the way conservators think about objects, the greater involvement of stakeholders, and technical developments. These are all integral to effective conservation decision-making.

• Includes case studies from the UK, USA and mainland Europe and Asia
• Assesses the conservation of objects in some of the world’s major cultural institutions
• Highly illustrated in full colour to show the effect of conservation in practice

Textile Conservation is a reference manual for textile conservators, textile conservation students and museum and heritage professionals.

✦ Table of Contents

Textile Conservation: Advances in Practice......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Foreword......Page 10
Editors’ preface......Page 12
Acknowledgements......Page 14
Picture credits......Page 16
Contributors......Page 20
Part one - The changing context......Page 28
Developments in the sector and pressures on funding......Page 30
Effect on textile conservation posts......Page 31
Increasing access to collections......Page 33
The professional status of conservators......Page 34
The conservator’s image......Page 36
Conclusion......Page 37
References......Page 38
Interpretation......Page 80
Authenticity......Page 81
Object role and context......Page 82
Object integrity......Page 83
Preserving evidence......Page 84
Treatment choices......Page 86
References......Page 87
Native communities......Page 126
European collections......Page 127
Working with non-western communities......Page 128
Public engagement......Page 129
Informing the public about conservation......Page 130
Conclusion......Page 132
References......Page 133
Part two - Technical advances......Page 166
Documentation......Page 168
Cleaning and humidification......Page 169
Stitched support......Page 170
Adhesive treatments......Page 172
Mounting......Page 173
Health and safety requirements......Page 174
References......Page 175
Development......Page 224
Education......Page 225
Textile-specific preventive conservation......Page 226
References......Page 229
Who are our scientists?......Page 254
What is the analytical work? Better grounding in science and analysis – better understanding......Page 256
Materials analysis......Page 257
Future needs – modern materials......Page 258
Informing treatment......Page 259
Summary......Page 260
References......Page 261
Part three - The Future......Page 282
Significance assessment and collaboration......Page 284
Educating textile conservators......Page 285
The future of textile conservation......Page 287
References......Page 289
Select Bibliography......Page 318
Index......Page 326