FURTHER READING

Anderson, M.1988. A nondamaging upholstery system applied to an 18th century easy chair. AIC Wooden Artifacts Group preprints, New Orleans meeting.

Anderson, M.1989. New applications of nondamaging upholstery. AIC Wooden Artifacts Group preprints, Richmond meeting.

Chewning, C., and H. F.Mailand. 1993. Treatment of an American 19th century upholstered chair. Journal of the American Institute for Conservation32:119–28.

Cooke, E. S., Jr., ed.1987. Upholstery in America and Europe from the seventeenth century to World War I. New York: W. W. Norton.

French, A., ed.1990. Conservation of furnishing textiles. Postprints of Scottish Society for Conservation and Restoration conference, Burell Collection, Glasgow.

Gill, K., 1988. Upholstery conservation. AIC Wooden Artifacts Group preprints, New Orleans meeting.

Lahikainen, E., and A. W.Rollins. 1991. Upholstery conservation in the diplomatic reception rooms of the United States Department of State. Antiques (May): 811–19.

Sands, J. O.1993. “An effect which far exceeds any conception”: An approach to conservation of a pair of Philadelphia arm chairs. Colonial Williamsburg15(3):72–73.

Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities Conservation Center. 1990. Reupholstery of the Milwaukee Art Museum's Boston easy chair utilizing a new upholstery technique. Video, VHS. 18 mins.

Trent, R.1991. The Wendell couch. Maine Antiques Digest (February):34D.

Trent, R., and A.Passeri. 1987. More on easy chairs. Maine Antiques Digest (December):1–5B.

Twichel, J.1990. Noninvasive foundations for reupholstery. AIC Wooden Artifacts Group preprints: Albuquerque meeting.

Walton, K.1973. The golden age of English furniture upholstery, 1660–1840. Leeds, England: Temple Newsam.

Williams, M.ed.1990. Upholstery conservation. In Preprints of the Upholstery Conservation Symposium held at Colonial Williamsburg. East Kingston, N.H.: American Conservation Consortium.

AUTHOR INFORMATION

ELIZABETH LAHIKAINEN received her B.S. in textiles from Syracuse University in 1972. During a career in textile conservation she was awarded a Kress Foundation Fellowship for independent studies to pursue her interest in upholstery conservation. She has been active in this area of specialization for more than a decade and has traveled extensively to both lecture and study original materials relating to the subject. Formerly head upholstery conservator at the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities, she is now associated with the Textile Conservation Center at the Museum of American Textile History in North Andover, Massachusetts. Address: 80 Federal Street, Salem, Mass. 01970.