Inside the Conservator's Studio

Since the publication of Gwen's book, Magnetic Mounting Systems for Museums and Cultural Institutions , early last year, more than 350 c...

One can say that every object tells a story. Often more than one. In the case of a family quilt that recently arrived in the conservator...

The kente cloth is a well-known woven textile from Ghana, stamped meaningful proverb symbols, and strongly associated with the Ashanti. Les...

Textile and organic conservators all have had the exciting, but also, at times, frustrating, experience of untangling metallic threads befor...

This year the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts  asked Spicer Art Conservation, LLC to mount an unique painted textile from Tibet. The uniqueness...

Sheet music, "Our Service Flag: A Blue Start  Turned to Gold," 1920, Library of Congress. Over the years at Spicer Art Conse...

I sit here comfortably in my home. The lights on, heat when I need it, and even water (this is sporadic due more to regional geographic issu...