- 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. 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 ...
- 4. Clothes Tell Stories
- (Uncategorised)
- ... the ICOM Triennial General Conference in Rio de Janeiro in August 2013. Katia Johansen Icom Costume Committee, Chair 2007-2013 ...
- 5. Preventive Conservation
- (Working with clothes)
- ... UNESCO Chair’s perspective (EN), presentation at Library of Congress, Washington DC, USA http://www.icon.org.uk/images/stories/costume.pdf and http://www.icon.org.uk/images/stories/fashion_accessories.pdf ...
- 6. Mannequins for Costume Display
- (Displaying clothes)
- ... cut out of photostats can be used, but it is difficult to mount costume on them without damage because of the lack of support. Some pieces of dress may be shown laid over a chair, if they conceivably could ...
- 7. Guidelines
- (Working with clothes)
- ... specialised staff. Discussions were initiated, largely through the leadership of Chairperson Ingrid Bergman (Stockholm), at the ICOM triennial Meeting in Buenos Aires in 1983. The basis for the Guidelines ...
- 8. Dangerous Costume
- (Working with clothes)
- ... in textiles taken from graves. Learn to identify lead buttons, decorative lead hair combs, and lead weights in gowns and avoid handling them. Clean areas carefully where there is lead, as lead dust ...
- 9. Anna Maria, the Queen’s Midget
- (Telling stories with clothes)
- ... wax face and shoulders were reconstructed. The original wig was badly damaged, but microscopic analysis reveals that the hair was golden blond, and the pattern of knotting in the wig base made it possible ...
- 10. History in a Purse
- (Telling stories with clothes)
- ... such a fashion hype that women sported jewellery and hairdos à la giraf. Those who had admired the giraffe at the zoo might have bought one of the purses as a souvenir, or the pattern, to make ...
- 11. 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 ...
- 12. 1962 Dress Memories
- (Telling stories with clothes)
- ... Tarrant, UK For others individual preferences were key factors in choice. "1962 immediately conjures up skimpy-round-the-hem brown (to go with my brown hair, & a good imitation of sacking) ...
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exhibition
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