The Textile Conservation Group
 
               Invites you to attend a symposium on
 
                The Treatment and Handling of Textiles
                 with Associated Problematic Materials
 
Date:     Thursday & Friday, October 6th-7th, 1994
 
Place:    Katie Murphy Amphitheater, Fashion Institute of
          Technology.  27th Street @ Seventh Avenue, New York, NY
 
Cost:     $70.00  $55.00 for students with appropriate
          identification.  Please make checks (US currency only)
          payable to The Textile Conservation Group.  (Mail to
          address below.)
 
For more information contact:
          The Textile Conservation Group
          c/o Tapestry Conservation Lab
          Cathedral of St. John the Divine
          1047 Amsterdam Avenue
          New York, NY 10025
          212-316-7523
     **Please do not respond via e-mail**
 
Presentations as of 16 August 1994:
 
D. Bede:  Introduction to Leather
T. Raphael:  Leather treatment issues:  What we have learned,
what we haven't.
P. Orlofsky, S. Castile, M. Kaldany:  Treatment of an 18th
century painted silk
M. Ballard:  Pigment printing past & present
S. Thomassen-Kraus:  A tale of 2 flags:  Problems with gilded
surfaces
L. Nieuwenhuizen:  Accretion depletion
L. Kronthal:  Identification and treatment of quill and hollow
hair decoration
C. Laroche, G. McGowan:  Analysis of manufacture and origins of
beads from the African American Burial Ground
D. Galusha:  Using freon in dry cleaning.
N. Kerr:  Buttons, beads & trim: what can go wrong in wet or dry
cleaning
S. Heald:  The problematic conservation of a dress made out of
butter cartons
C. Paulocik:  The last straw:  Hats & related problems
L. Commoner:  Doing something when nothing seems possible:  An
interdisciplinary sample book round table as an approach to
problem solving.
C. Bloomfield:  Doing something when nothing seems possible:
Conservation options for the Crown Mills Sample Book Collection.
J.Bove:  Heavy hangs the hem:  Some exhibition problems
D. Koslin:  Some unexpected problematic materials found in
Scandinavian textiles.