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Partners, Appelbaum and Himmelstein, 444 Central Park West, New York, New York 10025. Ms. Appelbaum is also Assistant Conservator at the Brooklyn Museum.

Lehmann, Detlef, “Conservation of textiles at the West Berlin State Museums,” Studies in Conservation9 (1964), p. 19.

Those adhesives which are applied in a volatile solvent and set as the solvent evaporates.

Leene, J. E., ed., Textile Conservation, Butterworths, London (1972), pp. 144–151.

Berger, Gustav, “Formulating Adhesives for the Conservation of Paintings,” Conservation of Paintings and the Graphic Arts (Preprints of Contributions to the Lisbon Conference), I.I.C., London (1972), pp. 613–629. See especially figures 3 & 4 and accompanying legends.

Phelan, W. H., Baer, N. S., Indictor, N., “An Evaluation of adhesives for use in paper conservation,” Bulletin of the American Group of I.I.C.11 (1971), pp. 58–75.

Scott, K., “Conservation of a Paracas Mantle,” Bulletin of the American Group of I.I.C.10 (1970), note, p. 159.

In the future, we would probably substitute a polyester net very similar to crepeline, available from Talas.

All cotton fabrics were washed several times in hot water before use.

Gettens, R. J., “Polymerized Vinyl Acetate and related compounds in the restoration of objects of art,” Technical StudiesIV (1935), pp. 15–27.

Rabin, B., “A Poly (vinyl acetate) heat seal adhesive for lining,” Conservation of Paintings and the Graphic Arts (Preprints of Contributions to the Lisbon Conference), I.I.C., London (1972), pp. 631–633.

Beecher, E. R., “The Conservation of Textiles,” The Conservation of Cultural Property, p. 262, UNESCO, Paris (1968).

Bellinger, Louisa, “The Cleaning of textiles,” Delft Conference on the Conservation of Textiles, pp. 92–93, I.I.C., London (1964).

Scott, K., “New Treatment for an old textile problem,” Bulletin of the American Institute for ConservationXIV (1974), pp. 168–170.