Good places to start looking for a conservator are the Conservation Online
website (CoOl) and the American Institute for Conservation (AIC).

http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/

http://aic.stanford.edu/


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Mary W. Elings
Pictorial Archivist
The Bancroft Library
University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720-6000
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At 10:45 AM 07/31/2002 -0400, Laura Hortz wrote:
>Hello everyone,
>
>I have a couple conservation questions for the list, I hope you may be able
>to help me out.
>
>Does anyone know of a good conservator in the midwest that can do both
>textiles and ethnographic materials.  I have a few Native American artifacts
>in the collection that need some help.
>
>Also, I am currently working on re-housing portions of our museums textile
>collection.  I would like to do rolled storage for certain items.  I have a
>large supply of brown cardboard hollow tubes.  I know they are very acidic
>but if I cover them in a mylar and then a layer of muslin would that help?
>Just curious.
>
>Thanks in advance for your help,
>Laura L. Hortz
>Curator of Collections
>Siouxland Heritage Museums
>Sioux Falls, SD
>
>
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