37189
Accession Number
38884
Title Of Article Chaper
Dream of the Perfect Chamber – Textile Conservation for a Peranakan Bed
Title Of Journal Book
On Conservation
Issue
3
Pages
44326
Collation
6 p. : ills.
Language Of Text
English
Literature Type
Serial
Literature Level
Analytic
Abstract
For many years, the Peranakan Museum showcased a Penang-style Peranakan wedding bed. This bed was a hard worker and had travelled widely to places such as Musee du quai Branly in France in 2010 and the National Museum of Korea in South Korea in 2013. The bed could finally take a break when the Peranakan Museum acquired a Malacca style two-tier bed to replace it in 2013. The Malacca-style Peranakan bed, circa early to mid 20th century, features raised, openwork gilt carvings. They depict fertility, auspicious and sacred symbols like phoenixes, peonies and the Eight Immortals of the Taoist religion. The bed also comes with an intricate hand-embroidered set of 17 textiles made of vivid silk threads. The Textiles Conservation Section of the Heritage Conservation Centre (HCC) was tasked to carry out conservation treatment for these fabrics and to dress the bed according to Peranakan wedding chamber traditions. In this article, we discuss two challenging parts in the conservation project: mounting the night bed’s curtain and securing a pair of window covers to the day bed’s frame.
Keywords
textile;conservation;silk;furniture;treatment
pub_id
37189