Caring for Cultural Material 1

Caring for Cultural Material 2

Damage and Decay

Managing Collections

Managing People

Handling, Transportation, Storage and Display

Glossary

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Caring for Cultural Material 2
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Leather
Wood
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultural Material
Metals
Outdoor Collections
Acknowledgments

TEXTILES
In this chapter:
Objectives
Introduction
What do we mean by textiles?
What are the most common types of damage?
Common causes of damage
The do's and don'ts of handling textiles
The do's and don'ts of labelling textiles
Historical costumes—why they should not be worn
Storing textiles
Storing accessories
The best materials for storing and displaying textiles
Displaying textiles
Open hanging methods for flat textiles
Displaying historic costume
Cleaning textiles
Summary of conditions for storage and display
Textiles in Australia's climatic zones
  MORE ABOUT TEXTILES
A note on the use of Tyvek
Selecting fabrics, threads and stitches for textile conservation
arrow For further reading
Self-evaluation quiz
Answers to self-evaluation quiz

 

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For further reading

Arnold, Janet, 1977, Patterns of Fashion 1. Englishwomen's Dresses and Their Construction—c. 1660-1860, Macmillan London Ltd, London.

Arnold, Janet, 1978, Patterns of Fashion 2. Englishwomen's Dresses and Their Constructionc.1860-1940, Macmillan London Ltd, London.

Arnold, Janet, 1973, A Handbook of Costume. Macmillan London Ltd, London.

Bradfield, Nancy, 1981, Costume in Detail 1730-1930, Harrap Ltd, London.

Burnham, Dorothy K., 1980, Warp and Weft:A Textile Terminology, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Canada.

Canadian Conservation Institute, 1983, 'Rolled Storage for Textiles', CCI Notes 13/3, Canada.

de Dillmont, T., 1912, Encyclopedia of Needlework, DMC Library, Mulhouse, France.

Earnshaw, P. 1986, The Identification of Lace,Shire Publications Ltd, Aylesbury, U.K.

Earnshaw, P. 1982, Dictionary of Lace, Shire Publications Ltd, Aylesbury, U.K.

Fletcher, Marion1984, Costume in Australia 1788-1901, Oxford University Press, Oxford and Melbourne

Landi, Sheila 1985, The Textile Conservator's Manual, Zndedn, Butterworth-Heinernann Ltd, Oxford, U.K.

Leene, J. 1972, Textile Conservation, Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D.C. U.S.A.

Maynard, Margaret 1994, Fashioned from Penury: Dress as Cultural Practice in Colonial Australia, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, U.K.

Norton, R.1984, Storage and Display of Textiles—for Museums in South East Asia, UNESCO.

Sandwith, H. & Stainton, S., 1991 Rev. edn., The National Trust Manual of Housekeeping, Viking in Association with The National Trust, London.

Tebbs, L. 1978, The Art of Bobbin Lace,Paul P.B. Minet, London.

Waugh, Norah 1968, The Cut of Women's Clothes 1600-1930, Faber and Faber, London.

 

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