Table of Contents
Part 1 Context; Chapter 1 The art of tapestry conservation, Frances Lennard; Chapter 2 Fit for a king?, Maria Hayward; Chapter 3 The survival of Henry VIII’s History of Abraham tapestries, Jenny Band; Chapter 4 Changing approaches to tapestry conservation, Lynsay Shephard; Part 2 Documentation and analysis of materials; Chapter 5 The truth will out, Maria Hayward, Ksynia Marko; Chapter 6 Instrumental analysis of metal threads as an aid for interpretation and preservation of a fifteenth-century tapestry altar frontal and super frontal, Cordelia Rogerson, Paul Garside; Part 3 Cleaning; Chapter 7 Comments on tapestry wet cleaning, David Howell; Chapter 8 A brief history of tapestry wet cleaning systems at the Victoria and Albert Museum, Frances Hartog, Albertina Cogram; Chapter 9 Chevalier Conservation, Susanne Cussell; Chapter 10 Cleaning antique and modern tapestries by aerosol suction, Yvan Maes De Wit; Chapter 11 Non-aqueous cleaning, Frances Lennard; Part 4 Treatment options – Support systems; Chapter 12 Development of a couching technique for the treatment of historic tapestries, Danielle Bosworth, Caroline Clark; Chapter 13 A grid support for The Lamentation tapestry, Frances Lennard, Michelle Harper; Chapter 14 Conservation techniques at De Wit Royal Manufacturers, Yvan Maes De Wit; Chapter 15 A description and evaluation of a conservation system for tapestries, Sheila Landi; Chapter 16 Tapestry as upholstery, Kathryn Gill; Chapter 17 Tapestry on a small scale, Laura Bosworth; Part 5 Treatment options – Image reintegration; Chapter 18 The visual reintegration of missing areas in tapestries, Rachel Langley, Philippa Sanders; Chapter 19 Methods of infilling areas of loss, Frances Lennard; Chapter 20 Tapestry conservation techniques at Chevalier Conservation, Susanne Cussell; Part 6 Treatment options – Different approaches; Chapter 21 Tapestry conservation at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Ronnee Barnett, A. Alice Blohm, Kathrin Colburn, Tina Kane, Midori Sato, Florica Zaharia; Chapter 22 Tapestries on long-term view at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Kathy Francis, Tess Fredette, Bonnie Halvorson, Deirdre Windsor; Chapter 23 Wawel Castle tapestry collection, Jerzy Holc; Chapter 24 The conservation of tapestries in Bavaria, Cornelia Wild, André Brutillot; Chapter 25 Tapestry conservation in Italy, Claudia Kusch; Part 7 Maintenance and display; Chapter 26 Made to fit, Michelle Harper, Karen Thompson; Chapter 27 Maintenance and first aid, Ksynia Marko; Chapter 28 Removing large tapestry hangings from display, Fiona Hutton, Frances Lennard, Ksynia Marko; Chapter 29 Ephemeral or permanent, Boris Pretzel; Part 8 Current research projects; Chapter 30 Monitoring of damage to historic tapestries (MODHT), Kathryn Hallett; Chapter 31 Mechanical testing and its role in the condition assessment of tapestries, Melin Sahin, Alan Chambers, Leonidas Dokos, Janice Dulieu-Barton, Jacqueline Earl, Dinah Eastop, Frances Lennard;