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Good afternoon, fellow TexCon’lers – A pretty
creative and inexpensive solution for padding out the folds in a quilt, imho. I
think it would work just fine if your storage box/shipping box is large enough
for the folded quilt/textile with the ‘air pillow sausage’ tubes
included. It would be something you would have to check if you already have
storage/shipping boxes on hand that you can’t afford to replace with
bigger/larger if you do use the ‘air pillow sausage’ method as you
definitely don’t want to squash/compress the padded-out quilt in its
storage box. The fact that the ‘air pillow sausage’ tubes don’t
compress is a good thing as long as the box is big enough to begin with. I
would want to experiment with how long the air pillows held their air while
being compressed if I wanted to use this method for padding out for more than a
few months. I’ve used the colorful ‘pool noodles’
(first wrapped in heavy duty aluminum foil) inserted into cotton stockinette
tubing to provide padding out for folded textiles. Regards, Margaret (Meg) Geiss-Mooney Textile/Costume Conservator Professional Associate, AIC mgmooney@xxxxxxxxxxxx …These sausages were muslin tubes filled with
the plastic air pillows used for shipping, each pillow about 4 1/2" x
8". The pillows are made by Storopack and are of polyethylene film. An
interesting solution. However, for long-term storage I don't see this as
viable. Most importantly the pillows don't compress so you'd have to
compress the quilt in the box to make room for the pillows. In other
words, you'd sacrifice the artifact for the storage material…. No virus found in this outgoing message. |