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Re: life span of vinyl fabric
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"Ballard, Mary" <[log in to unmask]>
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Textile Conservators <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Thu, 3 Jul 2008 14:36:56 -0400
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'Vinyl' might mean polyvinyl ethylene--'vinyl' could be a somewhat dated
term for a polyolefin....again the PE or PP are ok as long as they
degrade beautifully with UV. The webbing on outdoor lawn furniture used
to be polyvinyl propylene... and it degraded within a few summers of
exposure.

Mary W. Ballard
Senior Textiles Conservator,
Museum Conservation Institute, Smithsonian Institution
4210 Silver Hill Road, Suitland MD 20746 U.S.A.
tel: 301-238-1210 fax: 301-238-3709 
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