At the textile Conservation Centre, now in Glasgow, UK a student written her thesis on the subject. Ca.2003(?) but she also presented the topic in a confernce in Southampton (again with TCC) on 2005(?) 
If you contact the TCC will give you the name and contact details of the conservator and her thesis. A copy of this is with the university itself.

Konstantinos Chatziantoniou
Head of Collections and Conservation
King Abdulaziz Cetner for World Culture
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2013 10:42:18 -0500
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Subject: Re: Perspiration stains on silk
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Melanie Sanford published on this about 10 years ago in the AIC textile specialty group postprints. She's probably on this list.
Camille


On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 9:08 AM, Regina Höllinger <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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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Camille Myers Breeze, Director
Museum Textile Services
Andover, Massachusetts
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