As a costume/textile conservator, I recommend wrapping the wooden
hangers (cut down to proper size of course) first with
heavy-duty/freezer aluminium foil before covering with heat-bonded (not
resin-bonded, look on the packaging) polyester fibrefill and the outside
fabric covering (100% cotton knit fabrics work wonderfully). The use of
the foil means that you don't have another potential volatile organic
compound (VOC) off gassing in your environment, polluting you, the
museum environment as well as the artifact. The wrinkles in the foil
will be padded out by the use of the fibrefill and fabric covering. Any
fabric covering also needs to be stripped of any residues (i.e. sizing,
detergent, fabric softener) before being used, especially since it will
be in intimate contact with the artifact. Unfortunately,
prepared-for-dyeing (PFD) fabrics still need to be rinsed as there is
still sizing present from the manufacturing process, just not as much as
for conventional fabric store/garment industry yardage.
Margaret (Meg) Geiss-Mooney
Costume/Textile Conservator in Private Practice
Professional Associate, AIC
Petaluma, California
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