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I have just finished writing a Conserv-O-Gram for the National Park Service
on dry cleaning museum textiles. The Conserv-O-Gram isn't published yet,
but should be out soon. When it is, I believe it will also be available
on-line. In the meantime, if anyone is interested I can share the text of
the COG as an e-mail attachment or send it via regular mail.
I have also recently present a poster at the North American Textile
Conservation Conference on collaborating with a professional dry cleaner.
The information in the poster is similar to that in the Conserv-O-Gram, however,
it is a bit more technical and is written for conservators rather than a general
audience. Only the abstract for the poster was printed in the conference
pre-prints, so again, if anyone is interested, I am happy to share the text of
the poster upon request. The poster presentation contained a dry cleaning
worksheet developed in conjunction with Jonathan Scheer, a professional dry
cleaner and poster co-author. This may also be useful and of interest.
DuPont Clysar EHC is a "polyethylene polypropylene copolymer containing no
plasticizers". It is used for shrink wrapping. I became acquainted
with it at the Peabody Museum, Harvard University, and simply used it as a
humidification barrier. The National Archives has considered using it
in temporarily containing bound materials. I can't remember if it was
actually used, but more information can be found in National Archives and
Records Administration Initial Findings: a study of shrink wrapped simulated
bound volumes, August 20, 1993.
And finally, as Jerry Shiner has commented, the anti-sugar treatment is no
doubt a "wet-side" or water based formulation, perhaps just water added to the
dry cleaning solvent system.
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Kathleen Kiefer, Conservator 20 Camilla Avenue Dracut, MA 01826 phone 978-957-1159 kkiefer@xxxxxxxxxx
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