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Re: Textile Specialty Group AIC April 2007



I included you request mary.  Thanks
 
Ann
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From: Textile Conservators [mailto:TEXCONS@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Ballard, Mary
Sent: Monday, July 31, 2006 2:34 PM
To: TEXCONS@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Textile Specialty Group AIC April 2007

Fakes, Forgeries, & Fabrications—is the theme of the upcoming AIC conference. It’s going to be held next April, from the 16th to the 20th. Please plan to attend and to find yourself informed, entertained, and networked! The Textiles Specialty Group sessions will address the theme in a variety of ways; as always, the sessions will also provide updates and thoughtful presentations. We would like to have anyone who prepares a textile related poster present a short synopsis of the poster to the TSG during the session. Abstract submissions for presentations and posters are due September 1st in order to accommodate the 2007 program schedule—name(s), title, preliminary abstract to the TSG program chair

Mary W. Ballard

Senior Textiles Conservator,

Museum Conservation Institute, Smithsonian Institution

4210 Silver Hill Road, Suitland MD 20746 U.S.A.

tel: 301-238-1210 fax: 301-238-3709

email ballardm@xxxxxx

Antique and historic textile collections abound with examples ‘influenced by’ and ‘knock-offs’ and ‘pastiches’—textiles that are either forgeries or creative efforts, intentional or unintentional, flattering or ugly, ambiguous or definitive. It may be said that all textile technology is a search for a better way to improvise a less expensive copy. The conservation, the history, the art and science associated with textile ‘fakes, forgeries, and fabrications’ may provide some intriguing sessions. Plan to be there, and most especially, to contribute an abstract!

 

Those who garden or enjoy landscape gardening may want to note that the famous Virginia Garden month is April and The Virginia Historic Garden Week begins April 21st, at the close of the AIC 2007 Annual Meeting . See the website http://www.VAGardenweek.org/

 

 


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