2021 November Meeting & Program: Linda Edquist – Textile Conservation: The Basics
“The beauty of preservation & conservation is if one does the job well, no one will notice you have been there.”
Those words and the basic premise of “cause no harm” are the words that I lived by as a conservator during the career at the Smithsonian Institution. I started my career in textiles as a sewer, designer, costumer till I decided to change my direction and study textile conservation. Though I worked on all types of materials in the course of my work my love was always for textiles.
I will be sharing some general techniques and strategies you can use to protect your textiles. I will start with a project I am working, a crewel work piece that hung in my Grandmothers house till she passed away then with my sister. Most likely created while she was young and living on a farm in Norway over 100 years ago. For years I have wanted to get my hands on it to really examine it and was just given the permission by my niece.
I look forward to sharing this with PHG and will leave time for Q&A ~ so bring me your challenges.
This meeting was recorded, and is available to members in the Member Only section of the website here: https://portlandhandweaversguild.org/members-only/recordings/