Dear Regina, I worked on a neoclassical dress with perspiration stains building 
a small cilindrical vacuum suction table: "Trattamento di due abiti e due 
ventagli neoclassici della collezione tessile del Comune di Genova",M.Daniela 
Lunghi,Loredana Pessa, Claudia Santamaria in III Congresso Nazionale IGIIC -Lo 
stato dell'Arte Palermo 2005.
Best regards
Claudia Santamaria

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>Ogg: Perspiration stains on silk
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>Dear members of the TexConsList, 
>
>I am a student in Textile Conservation from the University of Applied Arts in 
Vienna. This year I am working on my diploma project, the conservation of a 
silk dress (dated around 1840). The lining is cotton, treated with a starch 
finish. A main focus in conservation is the degraded silk fabric in the 
underarm areas because of perspiration stains. Due to the degrading effect on 
the silk fibre I would like to remove or reduce the perspiration residues, if 
possible. Has somebody experience in removing perspiration stains on silk 
without complete wet cleaning of the object? I have not found much literature 
to this topic during my research.  
>
>Thank you very much for your help, 
>with kind regards, 
>
>Regina Höllinger 
>Student from the University of Applied Arts Vienna – Department of 
Conservation 
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