vacuum tweezers

[Valerie Carson <ValerieC@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm looking for help from those of you who have used vacuum tweezers,vacuum
probes or vacuum pick- up pencils.    My shopping list has had one on it for
years, and I now have a real need and despite reading the literature I am
not sure which would be the best to purchase.   We   have an embroidery with
a million minute shards of glass over its surface which is not only textured
with surface stitchery but also has beads and feathers  applied to it. I
have manually  removed as much of the glass as I can but now must find a way
of removing the tiny bits.
  I'd be grateful to recieve any recommendations.
 many thanks in anticipation.

Valerie Carson 
Textile Conservator
Te Papa Tongarewa
Museum of New Zealand
PO Box  467
Wellington 
New Zealand

 valeriec @tepapa.govt.nz
 fax 64-4-381-7310
 ph. 64-4- 381-7332