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Re: The last word on bread?
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- Subject: Re: The last word on bread?
- From: Michele Pagan <michele_johnpagan@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2006 09:27:47 -0800
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Loved your last sentence, Mary! Thanks for the
perfect clarification - and perhaps the last word - on
this topic!
Michele
--- Mary Ballard <BallardM@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Deborah, everyone: Well, yes & no: You may not have
> seen anything that has
> ever been treated with bread--the textile might have
> been eaten. The
> specimen could have been damaged by insects--perhaps
> you have only noticed
> the patches? and or perhaps the damaged textile was
> discarded entirely? Or,
> the bread was eaten by the cleaner himself (herself)
> who proceeds to shake
> out and beat the dusty blanket or tapestry rather
> than waste good bread.
> These scenarios would be a function of the price of
> bread and the cost of
> soap--both of which were much more expensive than
> today, as well as the cost
> of labor (much cheaper then than now). From a
> practical point of view, this
> bread treatment may well be a tale misconstrued--it
> is very difficult for
> most textile conservators today to think of
> breadcrumbs as a practical
> conservation treatment, any more likely than
> starching muslin. One of the
> nice things about living in the modern world is that
> we can appreciate past
> ingenuity without repeating the shortfalls. Best
> wishes, Mary Ballard
>
> >>> stillwaterstudio@xxxxxxxxxxx 3/10/2006 10:12:39
> AM >>>
> Sorry to post again about this - I realized my last
> message was unclear
> and
> I would like to refine it. What I was trying to say
> was that some of the
> many textiles I have worked on over the years must
> have been cleaned with
> bread sometime in the past. I have never observed
> any damage that appears
> to be attributable to this treatment. I offered
> this observation because
> there haven't been any controlled tests of the
> technique that I know of,
> and
> it seemed pertinent. I am not expressing an opinion
> on cleaning of
> textiles
> with bread.
>
> Deborah Bede
>
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