Odp: textile storage

[Pawe³ Karaszkiewicz <zekarasz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dorothy,

Thank you very much for your advises - it will help me in negotiations with
some old-fashioned conservators

best

Pawel


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From: <Questdsa@xxxxxxx>
To: <texcons@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, February 02, 2001 12:06 AM
Subject: Re: textile storage


> Re: Storage of large textiles
>
> Often rolling on a large diameter tube is the best alternative. I would
not
> recommend using tyvek as an interleaving layer because it would build up a
> lot of static as it is rolled and unrolled. It also has a slicker surface
> than cotton and the layers of the textile would not hold together well.
>
> I would suggest that tyvek is an excellent material to wrap around the
> textile after it has been rolled.  I have seen textiles, wrapped in tyvek,
> survive dirty water drips from a burst pipe, unharmed.  We use it as an
> exterior cover for all of our rolled and flat textiles. We often use a
layer
> of acid-free tissue as an isolating layer between the textile and tyvek to
> minimize the problem with the static.
>
> Dorothy Stites Alig
> Senior Textile Conservator
> Indianapolis Museum of Art
>