Dusting with a clean cloth if fine, except that it rearranges the dust. =20
Use a dust bunny statically charged cloth that actually "picks" up the=20
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on the furniture.  A better solution is to gently vacuum the dust away=20
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dust towards the vacuum hose.  Be expecially careful that the brush and=20
hose do not scratch the furniture.

Heidi Anderson
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On Fri, 7 Jun 1996, Ivy Strickler wrote:

> >While on this subject, would a collections care seminar directed at
> >furniture be something people would attend........??????
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> >Craig Deller
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> I attended one of these not too long ago and was somewhat disappointed. T=
he
> bottom line (repeated a lot) was to dust with a plain cloth and refer
> anything else to a conservator. Maybe this is the right answer, but in ou=
r
> museum all a plain cloth does is rearrange the dust.
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