New book on textile conservation

Textile Conservation: Advances in Practice.

Edited by Frances Lennard, formerly Senior Lecturer at the Textile
Conservation Centre, UK, and Patricia Ewer, Principal, Textile
Objects Conservation, Minnesota, USA.

Published by Elsevier, March 2010.
UKP59.99. Hardback.
ISBN: 9780750667906
elsevierdirect.com/9780750667906

A new book Textile Conservation: Advances in Practice examines the
role of the textile conservator as a skilled and professional member
of the contemporary art and heritage sectors. The discipline of
textile conservation has undergone great change since its
establishment more than forty years ago. The numbers of specially
trained practitioners, the range of their capabilities and
expectations about treatment results have increased as the field has
matured. While the core of all conservation practice remains
treatment, the contexts within which textile conservators work has
changed considerably, and their role is now infinitely more varied.
This book aims to demonstrate the development in the role and
practice of the textile conservator and to capture the current
diversity of textile conservators' work. The book focuses on four
factors which have influenced the development: the changing context,
an evolution in the way conservators think about objects, the
greater involvement of stakeholders and technical developments.
These four factors are interconnected and are all integral to
effective conservation decision making. The core text in each
chapter is written by the editors, and it is illustrated with case
studies by leading practitioners in museums and in private practice.
The book is written primarily from the perspective of conservators
in the UK and USA.


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