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1. An ‘ethnic’ souvenir for a WWI nurse
(Telling stories with clothes)
... Gage from Victoria B.C. Canada, 90 years old, offered four traditional garments. She inherited them from her aunt, Winifred Jessie Dowding, who acquired them while serving as a nursing sister of the Canadian ...
2. Terminology for Costume
(Working with clothes)
... were published in “Cataloguing Costume” in the Museums Journal, December 1976, pp 109-110. The drawings, essential for recognizing what kind of garment one has, were provided by curator Ietse Meije, ...
3. Documentation
(Working with clothes)
... Vocabulary of Basic Terms for Cataloguing Costume. This is freely available on the internet. There you will find short descriptions in English, French and German for the various classes of garment, ...
4. 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 ...
5. Lace for an Empress
(Telling stories with clothes)
... is identical to the dress at the Textile Museum, is still unclear. Eugenie could not wear the lace dress without a supportive undergarment of a woven fabric, which is not in the collection. Because it ...
6. Clothes Tell Wonderful Wishes
(Telling stories with clothes)
... of death could not take their child away. The skill of patchwork was also used in children’s collars, also called baby’s bibs. This kind of collar is separate from the garment. Children wear it both ...
7. Woven Legends from Guatemala
(Telling stories with clothes)
Lorena Bianchi Ixchel Museum of the Indigenous Garment   The Legend Woven in the Huipil from Nebaj, Quiche, Guatemala  Legend has it that once upon a time there was a king ...
8. Pattern-Taking
(Working with clothes)
Mette Vejgaard Pedersen     A pattern taken from a garment and the process of making the pattern can provide you with a lot of very useful information. These are our thought on the subject ...
9. Dress and Personal Narrative
(Working with clothes)
... text using the original words of the owners of the dress, witnesses of the events on which the garments were worn, or social commentators. This approach can be successfully used in the presentation of ...
10. Reconstructions
(Displaying clothes)
Making copies of museum garments Katia Johansen and Mette Vejgaard Petersen Royal Danish Collections     What resources can a museum offer if you want to make a copy or reconstruction ...
11. Transporting Costume
(Displaying clothes)
... the museum object as well as the work that has gone into mounting it on a mannequin. Proper support is necessary - sometimes the garment can be supported from the underside as well as being covered with ...
12. Marking and Labeling Costume
(Working with clothes)
... is always a matter of compromise, to be determined by the individual conditions.   Hand-writing the number in ink on cotton tape which is then stitched into the garment. For: permanent, but ...
13. Coat for a Wounded Prince
(Telling stories with clothes)
Katia Johansen Royal Danish Collections   Many Danish kings’ garments are preserved in the Royal Danish Collections at Rosenborg Castle in Copenhagen. They are mainly from special, ceremonial ...
14. Planning a Costume Exhibition - a checklist
(Displaying clothes)
... together choose suitable objects choose mounting methods assess garments’ condition and write condition reports photography for catalog, documentation and PR conservation choose and find suitable ...
15. Mannequins for Costume Display
(Displaying clothes)
Katia Johansen Royal Danish Collections   Costume is usually best displayed on mannequins with the correct size, shape and posture, recreating as far as possible how the garment looked when ...
16. Handling Clothes
(Working with clothes)
... textiles look like decide which actions are to be taken and in which order materials for safe handling, storage and transportation (see also Storing costume and Transportation) mounting the garments ...
17. Guidelines
(Working with clothes)
...  We remind readers of the stated opinion of Janet Arnold (1932-98), one of the most respected costume historians of this century: when a garment has been cleaned or conserved, it can cease to be a historic ...
18. Dangerous Costume
(Working with clothes)
... of textiles. It is safest to assume that garments in museum collections can be dangerous until they are proven safe. Lead from coffins, and arsenic and mercury from embalming fluids may be present ...
19. Digital Costume Display - The Kings’ Costumes
(Displaying clothes)
... (Royal costume) is an interactive presentation of 16 garments worn by the 16 Danish monarchs from King Frederik II (died 1588) to the reigning Queen Margrethe II. These pieces are world famous because ...
20. Anna Maria, the Queen’s Midget
(Telling stories with clothes)
... Maria was a midget, and when she died at age 15, a wax figure was made from her death mask and clothed in her best garments. The 26-inch tall figure was exhibited in the Royal Kunstkammer less than two ...
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