AHRB session on textiles conservation

AHRB Research Centre for Textile Conservation and Textile Studies
First Annual Conference
Scientific Analysis of Ancient and Historic Textiles: Informing
Preservation, Display and Interpretation
Textile Conservation Centre
Winchester Campus
University of Southampton, UK
July 13-15, 2004

Chairs and Keynote Speakers:

    Session 1
    (pm Tuesday, July 13, 2004)
    Chair: Jan Wouters

        Informing Conservation I: Analysis of textiles

        Identifying materials: Analytical methodology (Fenella
        France)

        Defining deterioration: Degradation of cellulosics (Matija
        Strlic)

    Session 2
    (am Wednesday, July 14, 2004)
    Chair: Graham Martin

        Informing Conservation II: Learning from the past

        Prioritising interventive treatments: Recognising textiles
        at most risk (David Howell)

        Enabling the legacy: The development of a Web-accessible
        reference library of deteriorated fibers(Jane Merritt)

    Session 3
    (pm Wednesday, July, 14, 2004)
    Chairs: Fenella France/Matija Strlic

        Informing Display: Characterising and monitoring textiles
        Physical properties: Accelerated Ageing of Fabric Supports
        (Christina Young)

        Signatures of ageing: Correlations with behaviour (Paul
        Wyeth)

    Session 4
    (am Thursday, July 15, 2004)
    Chairs: Jane Merritt/ Elizabeth Peacock

        Enhancing Understanding: Annotating textile biographies

        Hidden details: Textiles with tales (Dinah Eastop)

        Molecular evidence: Archaeological textiles (Rob Janaway)

Further details including abstracts of the keynote talks and Chair
and Speaker biographies are available at
<URL:http://www.soton.ac.uk/~contex>.

Paul Wyeth
Textile Conservation Centre
University of Southampton Winchester Campus
Winchester SO23 8DL
U.K


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