March 24, 2016
Hello to all!
This is Kathy Francis, Program Chair for the Textile Specialty Group—
I wanted to be in touch about the TSG program for the Joint Meeting of AIC
and CAC-ACCR Montreal. By now you will have seen the registration brochure
and all the sessions and activities planned. If you haven’t had a chance to
look through all the offerings, visit
www.conservation-us.org/registration-brochure. It promises to be a really
great meeting!
*Here is info about the Textile Specialty sessions:*
TSG will have sessions on three days, Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday, May 15,
16, 17, 2016. To see a listing of all the TSG talks in AIC’s online meeting
schedule, visit Sched here:
http://aics44thannualmeeting2016.sched.org/overview/type/Specialty+Session/Textiles
. We have a great mix of papers including general textile conservation
subjects as well as ones that focus on the meeting theme of preparing for
disasters. We have great treatment talks as well as those that address the
broad theme. We're lucky that the treatment talks also address the theme of
"confronting the unexpected". And we have several textile-cleaning papers
that relate to emergency recovery as well as a discussion session about wet
cleaning.
*Sunday, May 15 - TSG papers 2:00-5:30 PM.*
*We have 6 papers on Sunday.*
Some are conservation treatment papers and others focus on the theme of
confronting the unexpected. Three are on ethnographic textiles, one on
digital mapping, one on creating a digitally printed reproduction sleeve
for an 18th century painted dress, and one on unintended consequences of
using magnets and Velcro for display.
Disassociation risks: the conservation of two aboriginal figurines & their
textiles. Nicole Charley and Jean Dendy
Exploring origins and power: The technical analysis of two Yoruba
masquerade costumes. Rebecca Summerour and Dana Moffett
Inherent Vice in the Woven Structure of Northwest Coast Spruce Root Hats.
Sara Serban
Break in the Exhibit Hall
The Creation of a Digitally Printed Reproduction Sleeve for an
Eighteenth-Century Painted Silk Dress. Miriam Murphy, Alexandra Barlow, and
Eric Breitung
Digital Mapping in Textile Conservation – New Documentation Methods with
MetigoMap 4.0. Christine Supianek-Chassay
The Dark Side of the Force: Magnets, Velcro and Unintended Consequences.
John Childs and Maureen Merrigan
*Monday, May 16 – TSG Business Meeting is at 7:30-8:30 AM, followed by TSG
papers from 8:30 until 11:30 AM *
*We have 5 papers on Monday.* Two deal with the issues of emergency
preparedness/response/recovery, one deals with the crisis of a live insect
infestation, and two deal with wild and unusual materials and inherent vice
degradation.
A Material Disaster: Preservation of the Muppets. Sunae Park Evans
A Biological Disaster to Costume. Mary W. Ballard, Laura Mina, Cathleen M.
Zaret and Carol Grissom
A Textile Conservator's Contribution to Disaster Preparedness at the MFA,
Boston. Claudia P Iannuccilli
Break in the Exhibit Hall
Vial Things: Preserving the Unexpected in the Occult Jewelry of Simon
Costin. Sarah Scaturro
Assessing Collection Emergency Training and Response: The Risks of
Adrenaline. Lois Olcott Price and Dr. Joelle D. J. Wickens
Monday evening is the TSG reception at the McCord Museum. Ticketed event.
This year the TSG reception will be held at the McCord Museum. Come meet
with colleagues, catch up with old friends, and make some new ones. It’s a
special year since we are meeting jointly with our Canadian colleagues.
The reception will be held on the evening of May 16th, the mid-point of TSG
papers. The TSG Program Chair has promised the return of the TSG Reception
Door prizes! Do not miss this! We’ll also have a chance to see the
McCord’s exhibition “Wearing Our Identity - The First Peoples Collection”,
a textiles and clothing and exhibit that focuses on how clothing is linked
with identity. If you’ve already registered for the meeting, you can
register for the reception by logging in to the AIC site and then going to
the online store:
https://netforum.avectra.com/eweb/shopping/shopping.aspx?site=aichaw&webcode=shopping&cart=0&shopsearchCat=Session
*Tuesday, May 17 - TSG papers from 10:00-noon.*
*We have four sessions (including TSG discussion session) on Tuesday*. This
group of papers focuses on treatments to remove various types of soils and
stains from textiles. The last session of Tuesday morning will be a
discussion of issues in cleaning textiles, especially those that have been
damaged in disasters.
Foxy Underpants; or, the use of chelators, enzymes, and surfactants to
remove foxing stains from linen underpants. Laura Mina
Gelling in Theory and Practice: An Examination of Agarose Gels in Textile
Conservation. Emma Schmitt and Sarah Foskett
Tips and tricks to remove the mud from textile collections after a flood.
Gail Niinimaa
Emergencies, liquid stains, dirt, & textile cleaning techniques: A TSG
discussion
I’m really excited about the TSG program! It’s less than 2 months away!
Please go to the AIC website for other program info and to register for the
meeting! You can find more information on registration here:
www.conservation-us.org/register
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Kathy Francis
Francis Textile Conservation LLC
Falmouth, MA 02556
Telephone 732-670-1097
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