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- Title
One Hundred Anatolian Flatweaves: Conservation For Exhibition, Travel, and Storage.
- Authors
Gates, Sarah
- Abstract
The article focuses on the mounting system developed specifically to resolve the problem entailed with the exhibition of flatweaves, its travel to exhibition venues abroad and its final storage in the existing rolled storage system. The flatweaves from the Carolyn and H. McCoy Jones Rug Collection selected for a November 1990 display at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, California, have been estimated to be pre-l9th century. Developing a system for the conservation of the flatweaves was complex and time-consuming for a number of reasons. The objective was to make a number of large-sized, fairly fragile textiles as stable as possible while on exhibition, during travel, and while in storage. The development of the system was governed by three parameters curatorial aesthetic, conservation ethics, and the constraints of time and budget. After considerable analysis and experimentation, a four-step system for hanging the flatweaves was devised. flatweaves was devised. Many steps were taken to clean, remove sizing, and shrink the linen before mounting. The fabric was washed and rinsed three times in de-ionized water in a home-style washing machine, using a pure, synthetic detergent without optical brightener.
- Subjects
SAN Francisco (Calif.); CALIFORNIA; TEXTILE exhibitions; CONSERVATION &; restoration; STORAGE; ART museums
- Publication
Textile Museum Journal, 1990, Vol 29/30, p65
- ISSN
0083-7407
- Publication type
Article