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Title:

Textiles revealed : object lessons in historic textile and costume research / edited by Mary M. Brooks ; editorial panel, Joanna M. Marschner and Philip A. Sykas.

Publisher:

Archetype Publications,

Copyright Date:

c2000

Description:

xiv, 160 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 30 cm.

Subject:

Textile fabrics--Identification.
Textile fabrics--Conservation and restoration.
Costume--Conservation and restoration.

Other Authors:

Brooks, Mary M.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references. Annotated bibliography of published writings of Karen Finch: (p. 153-160).

Contents:

Textiles revealed: object-based research / Mary M. Brooks -- Hidden meanings -- Textiles as documents of history and those who care for them / Karen Finch -- Textiles as multiple and competing histories / Dinah Eastop -- Preserving the evidence: survival issues and research on ethnographic objects / Sherry Doyal -- Meaning from fragments -- English embroidery before Alfred the Great / Donald King -- Make or break: the testing of theory by reproducing historic techniques / Janet Arnold -- Buttons for an eighteenth-century man;s coat at Platt Hall: a re-maker's problem / Jenny Fitzgerald Bond -- Clinging to tradition -- How to read historic textiles / Katia Johansen -- Hairdressing in Norwegian folkdress: a study based on fieldwork between 1956 and the 1980s / Aagot Noss -- Archaism in dress: observations from east to west 1850-1914 / Joanna Marschner -- Revealing textiles -- Fitted for survival: what the selection made by survival reveals / Santina M. Levey -- Tapestry repairs: for better or for worse / Danielle L. Bosworth -- Let there be light: Winterthur's lighting project / Linda Eaton -- Hidden meanings: the revelations of conservation / Alison Lister and Amber J. Rowe -- Looking at costume / Barbara J. Heiberger -- Evidence of maker and making 00 Peeling back the layers: alterations / June Swann -- Re-threading: notes towards a history of sewing thread in Britain / Philip A. Sykas -- Following the clue: seeking a solution by means of object-based research / Wendy Hefford -- Analysis and preservation -- From test-tubes to 3D fluorescence spectra / ©gnes T©Ưm©Łr-Bal©Łzsy -- Down among the molecules: chemical analysis in the study of historic and archaeological textiles / Anthony W. Smith.

ISBN:

9781873132326 (pbk.)
1873132328 (pbk.)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)47651371

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)