Friday, March 7, 2014

Organizing, or "Ode to Embroidery Floss"

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It had recently become apparent that some of our supplies needed serious re-organizing. The candidate to start was the cotton embroidery flo...
Wednesday, February 26, 2014

Wha does a date mean when found on a artifact?

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by Nicolette Cook, with Barbara Owens, SAC staff W hat does a date mean when it is found on an artifact? It could be the date when the wor...
Friday, January 17, 2014

Conserving a Vaudeville contortionist costume, certainly a one-of-a-kind textile

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by Barbara Owens, SAC staff The Maine Historical Society is perhaps not the place you would expect to find contortionist costumes from th...
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Monday, December 30, 2013

Modern materials and conservation

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By Gwen Spicer, with Barbara Owens With the New Year upon us, 2013 will become history. What items from this year will be in a conservator...
Wednesday, October 30, 2013

What to do with Three-Dimensional archival objects?

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By Gwen Spicer  The majority of our posts this month (aka: "October is Archives Month") have focused on storage relating to flag...
Friday, October 25, 2013

Glossary of safe materials for storage

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How to Store Your Flag parts 1, 2 and 3 have been met with lovely comments from old friends and colleagues as well as some new friends and ...
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Wednesday, October 23, 2013

How to store your flag, Part 3: Rolling

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A s stated earlier in " How to Store Your Flag, Part 1 " proper storage is critical to the long-term preservation of any collectio...