Waterlogged Textile Conservation
Author(s): Lindsey M Howell Franklin
Year: 2019
Summary
This is an abstract from the "POSTER Session 3: Material Culture and Site Studies" session, at the 2019 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.
Waterlogged textiles are a wealth of information in a very fragile package. Myriad studies have been conducted to determine appropriate conservation techniques. This poster provides a review of suggested conservation techniques and includes an analysis of those techniques that are most effective with respect to a sample’s color, texture, detail conservation, as well as its strength, robusticity, and durability. Test samples were new, handmade, and artificially degraded via exposure to a variety of conditions. Samples were conserved with each of the recommended conservation techniques. Visual, tactile, qualitative and quantitative comparisons were used to conclude which techniques are the most applicable to specific environmental factors.
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Waterlogged Textile Conservation. Lindsey M Howell Franklin. Presented at Society for Historical Archaeology, St. Charles, MO. 2019 ( tDAR id: 449204)
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Keywords
General
Conservation
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Textile Conservation
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Waterlogged Textiles
Geographic Keywords
United States of America
Spatial Coverage
min long: -129.199; min lat: 24.495 ; max long: -66.973; max lat: 49.359 ;
Individual & Institutional Roles
Contact(s): Society for Historical Archaeology
Record Identifiers
PaperId(s): 495