Title: e-conservation
Issue: 17
Year: 2010
Link: http://www.e-conservationline.com/...
Download: http://www.e-conservationline.com/... (pdf, 7.93 Mb)
Table of Contents:
Editorial
Multicultural Conservation
by Rui Bordalo
News & Views
The Social Media Challenge for Conservation Outreach
By Daniel Cull
Reviews
Conservation and the Eastern Mediterranean
IIC Congress
Review by Sagita Mirjam Sunara
Bigstuff 2010
Review by Alison Wain
16th International Heritage Show
Review by Petruta Vlad
Preparing Ikats for Colors of the Oasis: Central Asian Ikats
By Cyndi Bohlin
Book Releases
- Books Will Speak Plain. A Handbook for Identifying and Describing Historical Bindings, by Julia Miller
- Studies on Information and Knowledge Processes. Studies on Heritage Management I, by Ferenc Kiss, Lia Bassa (eds.)
- The Picture of Memory, by Michela Rossi, Cecilia Tedeschi (eds.)
Articles
Science and Restoration at the Service of Interpretation
By Dimitrios Doumas
An Extensive Study of the Effect of the Enzyme a-Amylase Used in Textile Conservation on Silk Fibers Dyed with Safflower and Madder Dye
By Harby E. Ahmed
Case Study
Conservation and Restoration of a Rare Large Persian Carpet
By Omar Abdel-Kareem
Projects
The Bactria Cultural Centre: A UNESCO-sponsored project in Mazar-e Sharif, war-struck northern Afghanistan – Success or Failure?
By Alessandro Califano
Title: Preserving image and structure: tapestry conservation in Europe and the United States
Author: Frances Lennard
Reference: Reviews in Conservation, 2006, pp. 43-53
Download: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/... (.doc, 116 Kb)
Abstracts:
Tapestry weaving has been used for millennia to create fabrics in which the design is integral to the structure, but the term ‘tapestry’ is also synonymous with woven pictorial hangings, the subject of this paper. Since the first tapestries were made, they have been cleaned and repaired. As the loss of warp and weft yarns affects both the image and the structure simultaneously, tapestry restoration and conservation techniques have sought to clarify the image as well as support the structure. This paper analyses the evolution of tapestry conservation techniques in western Europe and the United States from the universal use of reweaving to the range of treatments currently employed.
Title: Practical hints on dyeing with natural dyes: production of comparative dyeings for the identification of dyes on historic materials
Author: Helmut Schweppe
Publisher: Conservation Analytical Laboratory, Smithsonian Institution
Year: 1986
Pages: 61
Link: http://hdl.handle.net/... (pdf, 30.6 Mb)
Table of Contents (short version):
General
Dyeing methods for natural dyes
Special directions for mordanting wool
Conversion tables
Dyeing recipes
Literature
Title: Investigación del comportamiento de algunos textiles utilizados como soporte de pintura como fuente de documentación a procesos de restauración
Author: María Teresa de Urkullu Polo
University: Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Year: 2001 Type of Document: PhD
Link: http://eprints.ucm.es/... (pdf, 16.2 Mb)
Table of Contents (short version):
I. Las Fibras Textiles
II. El Material Textil como Soporte de Pintura
III. Estudio Cientifico de los Soportes de Tela
IV. Algumas Consideraciones sobre la Conservación de Textiles en Relación con la Materia Pictorica que Sustentan
Conclusiones
This is not quite a publication but no doubt an important resource.
Link: https://fril.osu.edu/
Description:
The Fiber Reference Image Library (FRIL), a database of micrographs of textile fibers acquired through the use of multiple microscopic techniques, is now available at https://fril.osu.edu/. Scientists who deal with textiles and fibers, including textile conservators, archaeologists, forensic scientists and students will find the site to be a useful a source of comparative images to aid in fiber identification and characterization. The database is divided into three large categories, Plant fibers, Animal fibers, and Man-made fibers. Each of these categories includes many collections, organized by generic class. Micrographs are shown of single fibers and fiber groups examined using brightfield, darkfield, polarized light, and differential interference contrast techniques. Through these sequences of images, differentiating characteristics of the fibers may be seen, aiding in identification. For further information, the site includes links to pages such as How to Use FRIL, Resources, Glossary and FAQs, and Browse Collections as well as a Search tab that can be used to locate a fiber generic type or a specific feature of interest. This website was developed under a grant from the National Park Service and the National Center for Preservation Technology and Training, with the first phase primarily focused on construction of the website and inclusion of images of fibers from the Comparative Plant Fiber Collection, a collection of plant fibers typical of those used by prehistoric native Americans in eastern North America. Since the fibers were processed from the plant stems in different ways, the images provide evidence for the cellular structures that remain attached to phloem fiber cells with different types of processing and aid in fiber identification. This will be particularly useful for those who study fiber perishables. The site also incorporates images of animal and man-made fibers, with more images planned for these sections. Images of fibers from selected 19th and 20th century garments from Ohio State University's Historic Costume & Textiles Collection (HCTC) are included and these are linked to images and information about the garments from which they came, housed under the HCTC website (https://mediamanager.osu.edu/). FRIL can also be used as a teaching tool, providing information about fibers, microscopy, and forensic techniques of fiber identification.The FRIL website was developed under a grant from the National Park Service and the National Center for Preservation Technology and Training. Its contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official position or policies of the Nation Park Service or the National Center for Preservation Technology and Training.
Note: according to the Textile Conservators ListServ.
Title: Conserving textiles: Studies in Honour of Ágnes Timár-Balázsy
Editor: István Éri
Publisher: ICCROM
Year: 2009
Download: http://www.iccrom.org/... (pdf, 6.5 Mb)
or in 2 parts: part 1 (pdf, 3.3 Mb), part 2 (pdf, 3.4 Mb)
Description:
This compilation of articles honours Ágnes Timár-Balázsy, a renowned teacher of chemistry and the scientific background of textile conservation.
Table of contents:
Conservation of silk finds dating to the Anjou period (1301-1387), Judit B. Perjés, Katalin E. Nagy and Márta Tóth
Excavation of the crypt of the Dominican Church in Vác: preserving coffins, dress and other funerary paraphernalia, 1731-1808, Judit B. Perjés, Emil Ráduly and Mária Újvári
The conservation of two medieval parchment codices, Ildikó Beöthy Kozocsa
Conservation decision-making: from object to collection to community and back again, Dinah Eastop
The image of a crucified man on the Turin Shroud: measures taken for conservation of the legibility of the body image, Mechthild Flury-Lemberg
An eighteenth-century Hungarian court dress with nineteenth-century alterations: an example of historicism in the collections of the Hungarian National Museum, Katalin Dózsa
Dyeing black in seventeenth-century Holland, Judith H. Hofenk De Graaff
Metal thread variations and materials: simple methods of pre-treatment identification for historical textiles, Márta Járó
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