The Textile Specialty Group Postprints Vol. 6 (1996) contain the proceedings from the textiles sessions of AIC's 24th Annual Meeting in Norfolk, VA.
The meeting's subject matter, conceived by Textiel Specialty Group Chair Marlene Jaffe, brought together a number of papers addressing the topics of Display Method Updates, Doucmentation, and Analytical Techniques, in addition to two General Session Topic papers.
The Editors which thank the contributors to this publication for their cooperation and timeliness. Withough their enthusiam and hard work, this publication would not have been possible.
Table of Contents
Preface
PAPERS FROM THE PANEL: Display Method Update
Update - Costume Display Methods
Polly Willman
Display Methods for Small Textiles
Vuka Roussakis
Mounting Large Textiles
Muffie Austin
Curatorial and Conservation Considerations for a 14th-15th Century Mamluk Cap
Robin M. Hanson, Linda Easton
PAPERS FROM THE PANEL: Documentation: More Than Just Paper
Beyond Paper
Jane L. Merritt
Documentation: More Than Just Paper
David Boyne, Deborah Lee Trupin
Addressing Some Problems in Textile Photodocumentation
Susan R. Schmalz
PAPERS FROM THE PANEL: Analytical Techniques
A Spot-Test Directory for Material Characterization
Nancy Odegard, Scott Carroll, Werner Zimmt
A Technical Study of Painted Textiles
James S. Martin
Textile Pseudomorphs From 17th Century Native American Burials
Cathy Coho
Identification of Dyes on Textiles From RI-1000
Rebecca Johnson-Dibb, Margaret Ordonez
Fiber-Safe Extraction of Red Mordant Dyes
Erica J. Tiedemann, Yiqi Yang
GENERAL SUBMISSION OF PAPERS
Textile Conservation Issues
Virginia J. Whelan, Linda Eaton
Photographing Textiles: Answers to Questions Submitted by the AIC Textile Specialty Group
Dan Kushel