The Textile Specialty Group Postprints Vol. 8 (1998) contain the proceedings from the textiles sessions of AIC's 26th Annual Meeting in Arlington, VA.
Table of Contents
Preface
When Patching is Impractical: Nontraditional Compensation for Loss in a Quilt
Susan R. Schmalz
Insect Infestation: A Large Tapestry’s Fumigation and Stabilization for Storage
Betsy Gould
Up on the Roof: Light Bleaching of Large Textiles, Two Case Studies
Joy Gardiner and Joanne Hackett
Borohydride: An Alternative to Oxidative Bleaching of Cellulosic Textiles
Susan Adler
Disaster Recovery: Teaching Textile Salvage Techniques to the First Response Team
Kathy Francis
Disaster Recovery at the University of Alberta, or Every Flood has a Silver Lining
Shirley Ellis
The Effects of Freeze-Drying on Selected Properties of Wool Fabric
Shawn Gardner Fischer
Observations on Soot Removal from Textiles
Joanne Hackett
From Archive to Database to Research Tool: The Transformation of an Uncatalogued Sample Collection into an Accessible Database
Robin Hanson
A Disaster? Injuring Ourselves Through the Work We Love
Patricia Silence
Reevaluating the Crafts Traditions of Textile Conservation
Sara J. Wolf
Resumenes en Espanol / Abstracts in Spanish
Comite Nacional de Conservacion Textil, Chile