Dinah Eastop, Assistant Coordinator of the Textile Working Group, International Council of Museums, Conservation Committee would like to announce the papers selected for the ICOM-CC preprints and presentation next month in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The Textiles WG papers accepted for the Rio meeting are also listed in the ICOM-Cc Newsletter, No. 21, June 2002, p.6. There will also be a tribute to Agnes Timar-Balazsy
 
TEXTILE WG PAPERS:
Sharon Little, 'L'Art de la fibre de nylon: le defi d'un 
textile archtiectual contemporain'.
 
Cordelia Rogerson, 'A study of material and digital 
transformation: the conservation of two ancient Egyptian 
beaded items of dress'.
 
Deidre Windsor, Lynda Hillyer and Dinah Eastop, 'The role 
of contact/pressure mounting in textile conservation: 
recent applications of US techniques'.
 
Mika Takami and Dinah Eastop, The conservation of a Korean 
painted silk banner, c. 1800: paint analysis and support 
via solvent-reactivated acrylic adhesive'.
 
Luciana da Silveira and Christina Toledo de Paula, 'Caring 
for a Brazilian 'Humming Bird': an adventure in the 
embroidered world of Arthur Bispo de Rosario'.
 
Cecilia Di Nola, Claudio Tonin, M. Bianchetto Songia, 
Roberta Peila, Claudia Vineis and Roberta Roggero,
'Conservation project of an early 19th century Turkish 
'Ghiordis' rug found to have significant pesticide (DDT) 
contamination: the result of a successful co-operation'.
 
Christina Margariti, 'An investigation into the early 
synthetic purple dye, murexide, c. 1853-1865: A splendid 
failure'.  (Poster)
 
 
AGNES TIMAR TRIBUTE:As you probably know, special arrangments are being made by ICOM-CC to record Agnes' contribution to ICOM and to pay tribute to her memory. I think that these arrangements include a dedication in the postprints, as well as short tributes to her in the introductory plenary session.
  
AGNES TIMAR AWARD:
It may also interest the Tex. Cons. Dis. Group to know that the Textile Conservation Centre Foundation has established an annual prize in her memory. It is called the Agnes Timar-Balazsy Prize, and the first award was made this year,2002.  The award was made to Linet Mavesere of the National Museum Zimbabwe.  Agnes' husband, Dr George Timar, was very 
pleased by this memorial; he wrote "It is a very wonderful and generous initiative to grant such awards and titles to increase honour of this profession.  Please accept my special thanks for cultivating memory of Agnes...". George has already alerted the Hungarian museum community to the award.  If any readers want more details of the Agnes 
Timar-Balazsy prize, or they want to make a donation, 
please ask them to contact Nell Hoare, Director of the TCC 
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Dinah Eastop, MA, ACR, FIIC
Senior Lecturer and Director of the AHRB Research Centre 
for Textile Conservation and Textile Studies, 2002-7.
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