Good morning, all! Just a quick response here. Check out the free referral
to conservators offered by the American Institute of Conservation thru their
website (http://aic.stanford.edu/faic/refer.html).
You need to use a vapor barrier for the brown cardboard hollow tubes - Mylar
isn't enough of one. So I would recommend using heavy duty freezer type
aluminium foil instead (no adhesive tape used) and then the muslin.
Regards,
Meg Geiss-Mooney
Textile/Costume Conservator
Professional Associate, AIC
in cool and cloudy Northern California

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Sent: Wednesday, July 31, 2002 7:46 AM
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Subject: conservation questions


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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