Hi Judy - First off, make sure that everyone handling the quilt is wearing
nitrile gloves - have to conserve the people too! And then throw the gloves
away - don't reuse them. In my private practice, I have had excellent
results using the MicroChamber paper available from Conservation Resources
(www.conservationresources.com) with smoke smell (due to fire), smoke smell
(due to cigar/cigarette) and mothball. For quilts, I rolled the quilt (flat
enough and strong enough for rolling) with a layer on the bottom and on the
top and left it along in normal room temperature/humidity environoment. In
as little time as two weeks, the smell was greatly reduced.
Regards,
Margaret (Meg) Geiss-Mooney
Textile/Costume Conservator
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A quilt, its box, and packing materials sent to us for a contest has a
strong smell of cigarette smoke.  The quilt will be exhibited here for
several months and then the contest quilts travel for a year.  I somehow
need to remove the smell.
Does anyone have any suggestions as to how this may be safely dealt with?
My sincere thanks in advance.
Judy Schwender
Curator of Collections / Registrar
Museum of the American Quilter's Society
P.O. Box 1540
215 Jefferson Street
Paducah, KY 42002-1540
270-442-8856 ext 30
fax: 270-442-5448
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