RE: Labels

[Rebecca Fifield <RFifield@xxxxxxx>]

Absolutely, the best practice is to label the object with cotton twill tape
and labeling of each individual object is required by most insurance
companies. However, we were discussing Peruvian archaelogical textiles from
burial sites that are too brittle to label in this fashion - indeed, some
are only fibers. They are housed in mounts that were designed to go from
storage to display and back again. Please refer to the context of the
message.

Rebecca Fifield

> Rebecca Fifield wrote:

> The number is applied to the corner of the mount in pencil, not the
object.

My experience is, that objects without a number might get lost quite easily
once several similar objects are displayed. We also advise museums to label
each single object if only part of an object might be on display.
For textiles, I use cotton tape (washed) and write the number with edding
1800 profipen, which is a waterresistend and lightresistent ink pen. Tests
have shown that no further rinsing is needed, because the ink really is
stable.