4705
Accession Number
31598
Author
Chocano Mena, Lourdes
Compiler
Thomassen-Krauss, Suzanne
Title Of Article Chaper
Puesta en valor de un manto Paracas = Recovering the Value of a Paracas Textile (Necropolis)
Title Of Journal Book
Facing Impermanence: Exploring Preventive Conservation for Textiles: Preprints, North American Textile Conservation Conference 2007, Washington, DC, November 6-9, 2007 = Enfrentando la Inestabilidad: Explorando la Conservacion Preventiva de Textiles: Prep
Pages
156-160
Collation
5 p. : ills.
Reference Bibliography
Includes bibliographic references
Publisher
North American Textile Conservation Conference
ISBN
974643823
Language Of Text
Spanish
Language Of Summary
Spanish;English
Literature Type
Monograph
Literature Level
Analytic
Meeting
North American Textile Conservation Conference 2007
Meeting City
Washington, DC
Abstract
The project consisted of preparing this textile for its exhibition and improving its storage within the collection. The textile is part of the collections of the Museo de la Universidad Mayor de San Marcos. This textile is a mantle 271 cm long and 148 cm wide. One of the major problems was its storage; it being a piece of such large dimensions in a storage where there was not adequate place for it. Its main conservation problem was due to a previous treatment that had applied a support that was not adequate for the piece, because it was a smaller cloth sewn to the back of the mantle. Along with all these problems, we had to face the lack of an adequate space for this job, as well as storage where the environmental conditions were not appropriate for textiles. The challenge of this job consisted in adjusting the existing conditions to complete the conservation work; creating a solution to the storage and exhibition problems; and finally, providing appropriate recommendations for the continual monitoring of the piece, once this important mantle is recovered.
Keywords
recover;value;textile
pub_id
4705
Meeting Date
20071106-20071109