Tapestry Conservation: Principles and Practice | Frances Lennard, Mari

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Tapestry Conservation: Principles and Practice

ABSTRACT

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.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

part |2 pages

Part One: Context

chapter 1|10 pages

The art of tapestry conservation

chapter 2|7 pages

Fit for a king? Maintaining the early Tudor tapestry collection

chapter 3|8 pages

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

chapter 4|9 pages

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

part |2 pages

Part Two: Documentation and analysis of materials

chapter 5|9 pages

The truth will out: the value of tapestry documentation

chapter 6|9 pages

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

part |2 pages

Part Three: Cleaning

chapter 7|3 pages

Comments on tapestry wet cleaning

chapter 8|6 pages

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

chapter 9|6 pages

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

chapter 10|7 pages

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

chapter 11|8 pages

Non-aqueous cleaning

chapter |40 pages

Part Four: Treatment options

chapter |24 pages

(b) Image reintegration

chapter |38 pages

(c) Different approaches

part |2 pages

Part Five: Maintenance and display

chapter 26|7 pages

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

chapter 27|7 pages

Maintenance and first aid Ksynia Marko

chapter 28|6 pages

Removing large tapestry hangings from display Ksynia Marko

chapter 29|10 pages

Ephemeral or permanent: environmental decisions for textiles

part |2 pages

Part Six: Current research projects

chapter 30|2 pages

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

chapter 31|8 pages

Mechanical testing and its role in the condition assessment of tapestries

chapter |6 pages

Select bibliography