Good morning I’m the Curator of Textiles Collection of the City of Genoa and I would like to kindly ask for your help with an important question regarding the display of an extraordinary Byzantine silk in our collections, the Byzantine “Pallio,”as it has come to be known in the scholarship. It is associated with the Treaty of Nymphaion (1261), the Genoese-Byzantine alliance forged with the intention of reconquering Constantinople from the Latins. This large textile (1,323 x 3,76 meters), a red samite, is embroidered with silk and metallic threads, as you can see from the attached file. Since 2009, the Opificio delle Pietre Dure in Florence begun the restoration work on “Pallio” that will be end in October or November 2017. According to the restoration project, metallic threads will be deoxidated by manual treatment. Now, we must project a show-case to display the “Pallio” in the Sant’Agostino Museum after the restoration. Regarding this one, the chief of Textiles Department of Opificio delle Pietre Dure, Susanna Conti, suggested us a show-case containing materials suited to the task of controlling humidity but, above all, oxygen-free and with humidified nitrogen to avoid the reoxidation of metal threads. Please, could you answer the following questions: - Do you know in any Museum or private collection show-cases oxygen-free and with humidified nitrogen suited to ancient textiles? - Do you know of other examples of display of large ancient textiles characterized by just deoxidated metal threads? Every advice is welcome. Loredana Pessa -- Dott.ssa Loredana Pessa Conservatore Raccolte Ceramiche, Collezioni Tessili, Museo Luxoro Ufficio: Musei di Strada Nuova, Palazzo Bianco, Via Garibaldi, 11 16124 Genova tel.: +39 010 5572254 - 3355699493 fax: +39 010 5572269