10473
Accession Number
8554
Title Of Article Chaper
Treatment of a Pre-Columbian (Chancay) textile
Title Of Journal Book
Preprints of papers presented at the sixth annual meeting of the American Institute for Conservation, Fort Worth, Texas, 1-4 June 1978
Pages
149-152
Publisher
American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works
Publisher City
Washington
Language Of Text
English
Literature Type
Serial
Literature Level
Analytic
Meeting
Annual Meeting of the American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works. 6.
Meeting City
Fort Worth, Texas
Abstract
The construction of the textile piece is described. The following restoration procedure has been followed: all tassels were untangled. Groomed and wrapped in plastic wrap to protect them while the lacy and tapestry areas were cleaned, blocked and repaired. Then the panel was mounted on prepared, beige, cotton velvet which had been attached to a strainer.
Keywords
Textile, cotton; Textile, restoration; Textile, mounting ICCROM
pub_id
10473
Meeting Date
19780601-19780604