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1. Identifying sprang sashes
(Working with clothes)
... a kind of gathering before the fringe begins. Threads double up giving the appearance of a coarser weave at the ends. Some sprang sashes have elaborate patterns created by the careful placement ...
2. Documentation
(Working with clothes)
... to know and record as much as possible about every item in our care. Your museum may already have a manual to guide you through these processes. We also have to ensure that this information is readily ...
3. Embroidery Stitches
(Working with clothes)
... with stitching - needle and thread are used in carefully chosen ways to achieve the variety of seams that are used to sew garment pieces together. In addition, clothes are often decorated with various ...
4. Nurses' Uniforms
(Telling stories with clothes)
... nursing identity Worn by the largest workforce in the health care system, the nurse’s uniform created nursing identity for thousands of women for almost 150 years. When first introduced in the nineteenth ...
5. Theater Costume
(Telling stories with clothes)
Katia Johansen Royal Danish Collections   Costume worn on stage and screen often has a very special character, perhaps because it is so carefully designed to be worn and worked in. Museums exhibiting ...
6. Pattern-Taking
(Working with clothes)
... to be careful, systematic and observant. Make a note and combine it with a photograph if you come across something of interest. Some garments have needle marks and/or small pieces of thread indicating ...
7. Reconstructions
(Displaying clothes)
... which needs to be recreated in order for the garment to have the right silhouet and be properly understood, a copy might be made. But the museum must be careful to inform visitors what parts are genuine ...
8. Transporting Costume
(Displaying clothes)
... as they are while in the museum. This requires careful planning and training in how best to pack costume for the journey involved. Textile conservators have a much better idea of the weaknesses of each ...
9. Storing Costume
(Working with clothes)
... ingenuity, and always with care to create the best possible conditions with the resources that are available. Some basic requirements need to be filled for a safe, secure and suitable storage of costume, ...
10. Preventive Conservation
(Working with clothes)
...  La conservation préventive: une méthodologie d’approche basée sur le monitoring (FR), presentation at l´Université de Liège, Liège, Belgium Nobuko Kajitani: Care of Fabrics in the Museum (1977) in ...
11. Marking and Labeling Costume
(Working with clothes)
... labelling and documentation minimize handling, as it is easier to find objects, and save time, confusion, and, ultimately, the loss of objects entrusted into the museum’s care.   Links to guidelines, ...
12. Coat for a Wounded Prince
(Telling stories with clothes)
... carefully examined after the accident – had the prince held it where it was broken by the explosion he would have lost his whole hand or more. There didn’t seem to be construction problems, and it hadn’t ...
13. Mannequins for Costume Display
(Displaying clothes)
... mannequin, the garment should be lifted carefully onto the shoulders of the figure. It is always best to work in pairs - one who always supports the garment while the other adjusts it to the mannequin ...
14. Handling Clothes
(Working with clothes)
... and exhibition techniques. As textile fibers are easily degraded by light, humidity, and pulling or hanging while stored or exhibited, special care must be taken to prevent permanent, disfiguring and destructive ...
15. Guidelines
(Working with clothes)
...  care, handling   storage   conservation  display and outloans  photography  future considerations      The first rule is to show respect ...
16. Dangerous Costume
(Working with clothes)
... in museum costume collections, and which care should be taken. dust, fiber dust mercury, for example on small mirrors or top hats DDT or other chemicals used as pesticides arsenic, lead and other ...
17. Digital Costume Display - The Kings’ Costumes
(Displaying clothes)
www.kongedragter.dk   Katia Johansen Royal Danish Collections   Costume is popular in museum exhibitions, but it requires a lot of preparation, careful handling, well-appointed space ...
18. Take a Closer Look at Costume
(Working with clothes)
... to know in advance what type of information you will need. Our advice is to be careful – you never know if you can see the object again. Take photos! A ragged or worn out dress can have much to tell. ...
19. History in a Purse
(Telling stories with clothes)
... procession: she was accompanied throughout by two exotically dressed men, her Egyptian carers, and a herd of a hundred cows that provided her with milk. The procession drew hordes of people who came from ...
20. Clothing and Collecting Policies
(Working with clothes)
... display. While many of these will be valuable components of the collection there are some items of clothing you may wish to consider carefully before adding to your collection. Special occasion items  ...
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