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Re: Exhibiting vertically a very heavy embroidered textile in a museum gallery

Dear K Hatziantoniou

 

First of all I have pleasure e-mailing you from Athens. I conserved more historical textiles and carpets in The Islamic Art Museum in Cairo- Egypt, and in Faculty of archeology museum -Egypt. One step from this work exhibition. for exhibiting vertically a heavy nan embroidered textiles and carpets I created a new metallic frame which has more advantages. after that Fixing the rings to the metallic after making pores in the frame. A linen support was used after supporting the edges which were perforated. then, rings were fixed on this perforation for easy stretching on the metallic. the final step is fixing the textile on the linen support. 

 

A part from this work was presented as paper in Interim Meeting ICOM Conservation Committee - Athens- Greece- 2004. E-mail included some photos for this frame, Generally this method was very suitable for a heavy nan embroidered textiles that I conserved before. 

 

accept my best wishes

sincerely

Harby E. Ahmed  



--- On Wed, 6/18/08, K Hatziantoniou <khtextil@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

From: K Hatziantoniou <khtextil@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Exhibiting vertically a very heavy embroidered textile in a museum gallery
To: TEXCONS@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Wednesday, June 18, 2008, 12:38 AM



Dear All
 
I need to prepare a very heavy textile for a long term, museum environment, vertical hanging.
Its weight (aprox. 45kg) and its dimensions (approx 200cm x 290cm) makes it very challenging for me. It is a metal thread embroidery on silk that is weak to support the whole weight of the textile for the purpose I just described.
 
Apart from preparing a Hexalite board or a wooden stretcher covered with aluminium panels (made to measure for us from carpenters locally) stitching around all embroidered areas on a very well tensioned support textile over a wadding or polyfelt support underneath, is there any other 'system' or method anyone has experience with for such a large and heavy textile?
 
Many thanks for your time and help.
 
 
Konstantinos Chatziantoniou
Textile & Paper Conservator
Museum of Islamic Art
Al Corniche
Doha
Qatar
email: khatziantoniou@xxxxxxxxxx
Tel: +974 6980254
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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