I sorted out some tangled pillows for the Bucks County Museum, at Halton, under
the strict supervision of the textile conservator. The solution we ended up
with to keep the bobbins in order and supported was fishing line looped around
them and pinned at intervals to the pillow. It doesn't show that much from a
distance - it's like thick "invisible" thread, and equally endowed with a mind
of its own! Acid free tissue was used under them and between layers where
needed.
Regards
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Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2007 15:42:27 -0500
From: "Lorraine Weiss" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [lace] Help needed--Display of lace pillow
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
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