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1. Identification of Fabrics
(Working with clothes)
...  Felting is supposed to be the oldest way of producing a fabric, matting, condensing and pressing fibres, generally wool, or wool and hair and today synthetic fibres as well. If the fibres are ...
2. Identification of Fibers
(Working with clothes)
... at http://newvintagelady.blogspot.de/2010/12/burn-testing-101.html Luckily labels often tell what the object is made of: Wool ( Lambs wool / Camel Hair/ Mohair / Alpaca / Angora / Cashmere)  ...
3. Russian Underwear
(Telling stories with clothes)
... or memory space as well, not only for taste and smell but also of material sensation: scratchy underwear, tight corsets, chafing elastic bands, sliding straps, cool silk, warm wool. The body remembers ...
4. Miser’s Purses
(Telling stories with clothes)
... structures from silk net, crochet or knit, although other materials, such as leather, chain-link mesh, hair, and wool or velvet cloth, were sometimes used. Although miser’s purses had faded from popular ...
5. Reconstructions
(Displaying clothes)
... from polyester. This may or may not be important in a reconstruction. Fulled woolen cloth and fustian (part linen and part cotton or wool) were heavy-duty fabrics that aren’t made commercially any more. ...
6. Coat for a Wounded Prince
(Telling stories with clothes)
...  the accident altering the coat how the coat was saved historic precedence literature   Prince Frederik’s coat The coat is made of dark blue wool cloth, double breasted with ...
7. Mannequins for Costume Display
(Displaying clothes)
... for mannequins are Ethafoam, wool felt, acryl (Perspex), plaster bandage, Plastazote (polyethylene foam), resin, buckram and papier maché. The materials that are used should be inert, easy to work with, ...
8. Guidelines
(Working with clothes)
... contaminated, by fumigation in consultation with a conservator. No washing by anyone but a trained conservator. Vulnerable items made from fur, feathers, hair or wool should be kept in isolation for ...
9. Dangerous Costume
(Working with clothes)
... with cotton wool. There are stains on the reverse, perhaps from perfume. Royal Danish Archives and Royal Danish Collections, Denmark. Contagious residue Archaeological finds from graves can ...
10. Costume Idioms
(Telling stories with clothes)
...  Dressed to the nines   If you are in your very best clothes, you're dressed to the nines. Dyed-in-the-wool   If someone is a dyed-in-the-wool supporter of ...
11. Useful Addresses
(Working with clothes)
...    Fabrics Fucotex (www.fucotex.de ) Burgfriedenstrasse 23, D-86316 Friedberg Tel 0049.821.26380-0 Fax 0049.821-26380-35 A huge choice of cottons, wools, linens, silks and synthetic ...
12. Take a Closer Look at Costume
(Working with clothes)
Documentation – makes clothes talk*   Pernilla Rasmussen Dr ph Textile Studies University of Lund, ICOM Costume Committee member Britta Hammar retired Senior Curator Kulturen Lund, ICOM Costume ...
13. Ponchos and Mantas
(Telling stories with clothes)
... from vicuña hair to cotton, wool and silk. They might incorporate stripes or more complex patterns.   An 18th century European Poncho Often ponchos worn by Europeans were made from luxurious ...
14. 1962 Dress Memories
(Telling stories with clothes)
... lines which typified her dress sense was the appropriately red wool suit, with an asymmetrical fastening and large red buttons that she wore for her televised tour of the White House, aired on Valentine’s ...
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