Hello all-- A conservator friend sent this to me from a conservation listserve, and I am forwarding it here in case someone in or near Toronto can help the writer.
regards, Lorraine Weiss in Albany, NY From: Shirley Ellis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: November 5, 2007 10:51:25 AM EST To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: lace-making pillow Reply-To: Textile Conservators <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hello All, We have a lace-making pillow WITH bobbins and attached lace going out on display. The threads are currently tangled up and the bobbins splayed out in a half circle. The curator would like this pillow to look as if it was "being worked", ie with portions of the bobbins looped over pins in various sections on the pillow. I am concerned about the weight of the bobbins, hanging from their threads and would like to have them supported on display. Does anyone have any experience or knowledge of seeing lace-making pillows and bobbins on exhibit and how this was handled? Obviously, whatever is done needs to be unobtrusive and right now I can't think of anything other than plexi tiers which really isn't that minimal. Any ideas would be welcome. thanks shirley Shirley Ellis Textile Conservator, Royal Ontario Museum 100 Queen's Park Toronto, ON M5S 2C6 ph: 416 586-5878; fax: 416 586-8036 [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
