The Restoration and Preservation of Old Fabrics

Abstract

have been severely damaged or weakened by a variety of causes. Since such items are in many cases not exhibited for fear of still further damage by light, or from other motives, they are often relegated to a storeroom where they are accessible, if at all, only to those wishing to make a special study of them. And whilst it is serious enough that only a few people can view them, a still greater tragedy is that, even with the most careful handling, the badly affected items suffer so severely that within a short time they have to be entirely written off. For the mechanical strength of the fibres has become so slight that fibre fragments are continually breaking off. To this must be added the fact that, owing to lack of space and resources, many museums, particularly the smaller ones, are unable to organize their storerooms properly, with the result that the materials stored there are threatened with

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