'Textiles in Trust' celebrates the centenary of the National Trust and contains much of interest to anyone concerned with the care of historic textiles - upholstery, embroidery, costumes, curtains, carpet and tapestry. The papers presented in this volume demonstrate the tremendous ingenuity, skill and painstaking care of the conservators who undertake work for the National Trust in its continuing endeavour to preserve the contents of historic country houses for the future.
This volume presents the proceedings of the symposium of the same name held in September 1995 and was published in association with the National Trust.
Introduction and acknowledgements
Foreword
List of Contributors
Symposium papers
A crumbling inheritance: textiles and the National Trust
Martin Drury
Textiles on open display: the conservation issues
Nigel Seeley
Funding for conservation: priorities and value for money
Andrew Durham
A conflict of interest? Conservation versus historic presentation, a curatorial view
Simon Thurley
The embroidery exhibition at Hardwick Hall
Santina M. Levey
Work undertaken by volunteers at the National Trust's Textile Conservation Workrooms at Blickling Hall, Norfolk 1976-86
Pamela Clabburn
The role of housekeeping and preventive conservation in the care of textiles in historic houses
Helen Lloyd
Felbrigg Hall: an environmental conservation perspective
Julie Marsden
The care of the National Trust's carriage collections
Christopher Nicholson
Two contrasting minimally interventive upholstery treatments: different roles, different treatments
Kate Gill and Dinah Eastop
The conservation of four chair covers matching the State Bed at Dyrham Park
Anne van den Berg
The Art of Dress: an introduction to the National Trust's costume collections
Jane Ashelford
The costume collections at Springhill Manor and the Ellen Terry Museum, Smallhythe Place, their care and conservation
Judith Doré
Conservation traditions at Uppark: Lady Meade-Fetherstonhaugh as a textile conservator
Christopher Rowell
Continuing conservation traditions at Uppark: The conservation of the Saloon curtains
Ksynia Marko
The resurrection of the Uppark State Bed
Annabel Wylie and Poppy Singer
Erddig revisited
Sheila Landi
The rescue of an important English carpet
Johnathan Tetley and Sarah Howard
The conservation of four tapestries from Hardwick Hall
Danielle Bosworth
The National Trust tapestry collection
Tom Campbell
Symposium poster session abstracts
Wet cleaning of the Dining Room curtains, Uppark House
Valerie Davies
Wet cleaning of the Small Drawing Room curtains, Uppark House
Valerie Davies
Conservation of silk wall coverings at Arlington Court
Fiona Hutton
Brodsworth Hall - Drawing Room pelmets
Rachel Langley
Blickling Mortlake tapestry - adhesive removal treatment
Melanie Leach
The conservation and display of two painted colours from Cotehele
Frances Lennard
The Felbrigg chairs - an exercise in remedial and preventive conservation
Lynn McClean
The care of textiles at Ham and Osterley - the Victoria and Albert Museum's approach
Gillian Owen
The playing boys tapestries from Cotehele House: camouflage techniques
Ann Reynolds
The Powis State Coach hammer cloth
Clare Stoughton-Harris
The history of Caesar Tapestries from Powis Castle: the treatment of previous repairs and alterations
Karen Thompson
Tassel terminology
Vic Ringwood
Appendix
...[goes] long way in discussing the range of preservation and presentation techniques for textiles as these techniques are practiced in the 20th century, and...Textiles in Trust also provide[s] a good summary of historical approaches to treatment for long-term (permanent) display.
Journal of the American Institute for Conservation 38 (1999) 204-205
