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/