Introduces the important textile collection and the high standards of conservation and training achieved by Mechthild Flury-Lemberg at the Abegg Foundation in Riggisberg, near Bern, Switzerland. Gives an overview of the foundation's history; discusses its guiding principles with the help of extensive quotations from Flury-Lemberg's recent publication <i>Textile Conservation and Research</i>, abstracted in this same <i>AATA</i> issue.