It takes a team of conservators and hours of meticulous preparation and care to get a textile ready
It takes a team of conservators and hours of meticulous preparation and care to get a textile ready for display in the museum. Peek inside our lab at the Avenir Foundation Conservation and Collections Resource Center to see how we prepared two objects from The Textile Museum collections that are now on view in the galleries. In the images at the top, Conservation Fellow Gennifer Majors and Rebecca Summerour, a contract conservator, humidify a twentieth-century Japanese kimono with cold water vapor to reduce creasing, and prepare hardware for hanging the kimono on a t-stand. Below, Rebecca carefully removes an iron-on patch that was attached to an Iranian prayer cloth before the museum acquired it. -- source link
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