Thanks Kathy! It's great to have this outline of the planned TSG sessions. Should be an excellent program! Kathleen Kiefer, Conservator Material Culture Conservation, LLC 212 W 10th St, Suite B-240 Indianapolis, IN 46202 [log in to unmask] 484-639-4749 - cell Material Culture Conservation, LLC *Care and Conservation of Costume, Textiles and Fiber-Based Objects* *Materials Testing & Exhibit Preparation Services* On Sat, Mar 26, 2016 at 4:18 PM, Francis, Kathy <[log in to unmask] > wrote: > 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 > > -- > Kathy Francis > Francis Textile Conservation LLC > Falmouth, MA 02556 > Telephone 732-670-1097 > [log in to unmask] >