SERVICES

The Textile Conservation and Restoration Studio provides cleaning for all types of textiles, using museum specifications. Oversized textiles such as banners, carpets, flags, tapestries, and upholstery are normally cleaned at the main Studio located in Girard Ohio. Mixed media textiles, such as beadwork, fans, hats, leather and suede can be cleaned, conserved and restored at both locations. Inner supports for apparel, accessories and mixed media artifacts can be made either for exhibit or storage. Special care is given to matching the colors, fabrics, threads, yarns and weaving construction in the restoration aspect of each work project.

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Treatments provided by the Studio include:

APPAREL AND ACCESSORIES

• Cleaning the artifacts by wet or dry methods
• The sewing of inner support linings and attachments in clothing for display
• The dressing of mannequins
• Reproduction of clothing or making reproduction patterns

FLAGS, SAMPLERS, EMBROIDERIES AND OTHER FLAT TEXTILES

• Cleaning, wet or dry
• The stabilization of damaged or missing areas, using linings of Silk Crepeline dyed to match
• Preparing museum mounts for exhibition

TAPESTRIES, NEEDLEPOINT AND NAVAJO WEAVINGS

• Cleaning, wet or dry
• The reweaving of foundations to accept any missing design features
• The sewing of slits and other openings in a tapestry which would affect its display
• The conservation or restoration of wool or silk yarn designs in the tapestry
• Sewing inner supports and new linings for tapestries and large banners
• Constructing Velcro hanging systems for permanent or temporary display

QUILTS AND COVERLETS

• Cleaning
• Rebinding of edges, the conservation or restorations of damaged design elements of the quilts
• Restoring the missing quilting designs
• Reweaving of missing coverlet designs
• Reproduction of pieced quilt and the quilting designs

BEADWORK, FANS, FEATHERS, LEATHER AND SUEDE

• Cleaning of multi-dimensional artifacts
• Restoration of beadwork designs, and linings. This is particularly important for purses
• Fringes restored
• Manufacturing supports for multidimensional artwork or artifacts

LACE

• Cleaning
• The restoration and/or conservation of lace design stitches or knots
• The preparations of mounts for vertical or horizontal display

CARPETS-BRAIDED, HOOKED OR ORIENTAL

• Cleaning, wet or dry
• The reweaving of foundations to accept the restoration of design elements
• In braided carpets, replacing wool or fabric braid where necessary

UPHOLSTERY

• Cleaning
• The reweaving of foundations in tapestry or needlepoint to restore design features
• Support linings can be made for each artifact as required