The Conservation of Tapestries and Embroideries

The Conservation of Tapestries and Embroideries from the Getty Conservation Institute

The restoration of four historically significant Renaissance textiles in the workshop of the Institut Royal du Patrimoine Artistique (IRPA) provided the occasion for a gathering of twenty-seven conservators, conservation scientists and curators from museums and tapestry and embroidery conservation workshops in Western Europe and the United States. The seminar was designed as a forum for participants to present their current research and treatments, address urgent issues that have not yet received sufficient attention from the profession, scrutinize new findings, and thoroughly discuss specific problems, innovations, methods, materials and technologies that might be proposed in the course of the meetings. The fifteen papers published in this volume formed the armature for this creative exchange.

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