Tapestry Conservation

Tapestry Conservation: Principles and Practice explores current practice and recent research in tapestry conservation, promoting awareness of recent developments among conservators and custodians of tapestries. The book facilitates more informed conservation practice and decision-making, and helps custodians to select the most appropriate method of intervention.

Foreword

ix

Wendy Hefford

Karen Finch

Editors' preface

xi

Acknowledgements

xiii

Picture credits

xv

List of contributors

xvii

Tapestry timeline

xxiii

Maria Hayward

Part One: Context

1

(36)

The art of tapestry conservation

3

(10)

Frances Lennard

Fit for a king? Maintaining the early Tudor tapestry collection

13

(7)

Maria Hayward

The survival of Henry VIII's History of Abraham tapestries: an account of how they were perceived, used and treated over the centuries

20

(8)

Jenny Band

Changing approaches to tapestry conservation: the conservation of a set of seven eighteenth-century tapestries

28

(9)

Lynsay Shephard

Part Two: Documentation and analysis of materials

37

(20)

The truth will out: the value of tapestry documentation

39

(9)

Maria Hayward

Ksynia Marko

Instrumental analysis of metal threads as an aid for interpretation and preservation of a fifteenth-century tapestry altar frontal and super frontal

48

(9)

Cordelia Rogerson

Paul Garside

Part Three: Cleaning

57

(32)

Comments on tapestry wet cleaning

59

(3)

David Howell

A brief history of tapestry wet cleaning systems at the Victoria and Albert Museum

62

(6)

Frances Hartog

Albertina Cogram

Chevalier Conservation: past and present developments in the cleaning of tapestries

68

(6)

Susanne Cussell

Cleaning antique and modern tapestries by aerosol suction: thirteen years later -- the characteristics, comparative advantages and limitations of this system

74

(7)

Yvan Maes De Wit

Non-aqueous cleaning

81

(8)

Frances Lennard

Part Four: Treatment options

89

(102)

Support systems

Development of a couching technique for the treatment of historic tapestries

91

(6)

Danielle Bosworth

Caroline Clark

A grid support for The Lamentation tapestry

97

(5)

Frances Lennard

Michelle Harper

Conservation techniques at De Wit Royal Manufacturers

102

(6)

Yvan Maes De Wit

A description and evaluation of a conservation system for tapestries

108

(5)

Sheila Landi

Tapestry as upholstery: the challenges of conserving tapestry-covered seat furniture

113

(10)

Kathryn Gill

Tapestry on a small scale: conserving a set of Soho tapestry chair covers from Petworth House

123

(8)

Laura Bosworth

Image reintegration

129

(2)

The visual reintegration of missing areas in tapestries

131

(7)

Rachel Langley

Philippa Sanders

Methods of infilling areas of loss

138

(7)

Frances Lennard

Tapestry conservation techniques at Chevalier Conservation

145

(10)

Susanne Cussell

Different approaches

153

(2)

Tapestry conservation at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

155

(8)

Ronnee Barnett

A. Alice Blohm

Kathrin Colburn

Tina Kane

Midori Sato

Florica Zaharia

Tapestries on long-term view at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum: a synthesis of treatment options

163

(8)

Kathy Francis

Tess Fredette

Bonnie Halvorson

Deirdre Windsor

Wawel Castle tapestry collection: an overview of past and present conservation practice in Krakow, Poland

171

(6)

Jerzy Holc

The conservation of tapestries in Bavaria

177

(8)

Cornelia Wild

Andre Brutillot

Tapestry conservation in Italy: two case studies

185

(6)

Claudia Kusch

Part Five: Maintenance and display

191

(32)

Made to fit: reinstating a set of tapestries and painted panels into the Audley End Tapestry Room

193

(7)

Michelle Harper

Karen Thompson

Maintenance and first aid

200

(7)

Ksynia Marko

Removing large tapestry hangings from display

207

(6)

Fiona Hutton

Frances Lennard

Ksynia Marko

Ephemeral or permanent: environmental decisions for textiles

213

(10)

Boris Pretzel

Part Six: Current research projects

223

(12)

Monitoring of damage to historic tapestries (MODHT): a European research project

225

(2)

Kathryn Hallett

Mechanical testing and its role in the condition assessment of tapestries

227

(8)

Melin Sahin

Alan Chambers

Leonidas Dokos

Janice Dulieu-Barton

Jacqueline Earl

Dinah Eastop

Frances Lennard

Select bibliography

235

(6)

Glossary

241

(2)

Index

243

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Tapestry Conservation

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