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Author Lennard, Frances

Title Textile Conservation Advances in Practice
Edition 2nd ed
Published Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2024

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Description 1 online resource (687 p.)
Series Routledge Series in Conservation and Museology Series
Routledge Series in Conservation and Museology Series
Contents Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Foreword to the First Edition -- Foreword to the Second Edition -- Editors' Preface -- Acknowledgements -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Contributors -- List of Abbreviations -- Chapter 1 Textile Conservation within the Cultural Sector -- 1.0 Overview -- 1.1 Institutional Developments and their Effect on Conservation Policies: The Cambusnethan Bog Burial Coat -- 1.2 Figures in Museum Display: The Creation and Use of a Little Person Mannequin at National Museums Scotland
1.3 Modern Textile Conservation at the Victoria and Albert Museum: Roots, Evolution and Rapid Changes -- 1.4 Modern Textile Conservation at the Victoria and Albert Museum II: Dynamic Display and Agile Conservation -- 1.5 Project Planning and Management -- 1.6 Moving on: The Transition From Museum Conservation to Private Practice -- Chapter 2 Treatment Ethics and Decision-Making -- 2.0 Overview -- 2.1 To Reveal and Not Obscure: Balancing Conservation and Visual Access -- 2.2 Inherent Vice, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Shattered Silk
2.3 Preserving Information: Two Beds with Textile Hangings Dating From the Seventeenth Century -- 2.4 Conservation and Connoisseurship -- 2.5 The Conservator's Eye: Bringing an Additional Perspective to Textile Artefacts -- 2.6 Traditional Dress: The Evolution of Exhibition Display Methods in Response to Curatorial Interpretations -- 2.7 Fit for a Princess? Material Culture and the Conservation of Grace Kelly's Wedding Dress -- 2.8 The Conservation of Three Painted Soft Sculptures by Mirka Mora: Three Different Outcomes -- Chapter 3 Conservation and Community Partnerships -- 3.0 Overview
3.1 Partnership in the Preservation of Cultural Heritage at the National Museum of the American Indian -- 3.2 Mana Taonga: People-Centred Conservation Practice at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa -- 3.3 Repatriation of Chief Crowfoot's Regalia to the Siksika Nation -- a Conservator's Involvement -- 3.4 The Esh Winning Miners' Banner Project -- Conservation Involvement in a Community Initiative -- 3.5 The Treatment and Retreatment of Trade Union Banners: (Re)building a Specialism in the Conservation of Large Painted Textiles Based on their Living History
3.6 The Scots Colours at Toitu Otago Settlers Museum: Use, Preservation, and Protocol -- 3.7 Preserving Materials and Preserving Meaning: Marie Watt's Untitled (Dream Catcher), 2014 -- Chapter 4 Interventive Conservation -- 4.0 Overview -- 4.1 The Preparation of Condition Reports for Costume and Textiles at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art -- 4.2 Documentation as Conservation: The Treatment of an Archaeological Andean Khipu -- 4.3 Recording Change: 1978-2008-2024. The Rationale for Suction Table Cleaning of a Needlework Sampler with Iron Gall Ink
4.4 Back From Black -- Contrasting Approaches to the Cleaning and Conservation of Historic Fixed Wall Hangings at Knole
Summary This second edition of Textile Conservation offers an up-to-date perspective on the role and practice of textile conservators, capturing the diversity of textile conservation work across the globe
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Form Electronic book
Author Ewer, Patricia
Mina, Laura
ISBN 9781003825241
1003825249