Clothes Tell Stories

1. Identification of Fabrics: (Working with clothes); ... is no internationally accepteduniform wording. The same fabric may have different names in U.S.A. and U.K or Australia, or you find different definitions for the same fabric as commercial terminology is ...
2. Miser’s Purses: (Telling stories with clothes); ... The Last of England (1852–1855). In the painting, the husband/father figure clutches a red-and-gold miser’s purse along with his wife’s hand as he emigrates with his family from England to Australia. In ...
3. Dress and Personal Narrative: (Working with clothes); Maria Wrońska-Friend James Cook University, Cairns, Australia Clothes are an excellent medium to tell human stories and engage with museum visitors. They can reveal a multitude of information ...
4. Transporting Costume: (Displaying clothes); ... Exhibition Organizers, 2009 Emergencies: disaster planning and response. ICOM Guidelines from “Museum Security and Protection, ICMS and from Heritage Collections Council and Blue Shield in Australia: ...
5. Storing Costume: (Working with clothes); ... suppliers’ list for New Zealand Good resources for working with costume: Australian Dress Register Examples of museum storage facilities Modern fashion, Paco Rabanne Newer and contemporary ...
6. Preventive Conservation: (Working with clothes); Katia Johansen Royal Danish Collections Preventive Conservation: definition: The National Gallery of Australia describes preventive conservation as follows: It aims to minimise deterioration ...
7. Mannequins for Costume Display: (Displaying clothes); ... Systems For Ethnographic Textiles And Objects L. Flecker, A Practical Guide to Costume Mounting (2007). Oxford, Butterworth-Heinemann. Good videos and information on dressing mannequins: Australian ...
8. Handling Clothes: (Working with clothes); ... Fiber Reference Image Library Australian Dress Register, with excellent articles and videos ...
9. Social and Digital Media: (Displaying clothes); ... photographs of items from the collection and responses to followers’ comments. The National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia, used Twitter to tell followers about their last chance to see an ...
10. Creative Labels for Displays of Clothing and Fashion: (Displaying clothes); ... and interpretation , 2009 Writing Text and Labels, an on-line guide produced by the Australian Museum with an extensive bibliography ...