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Skyros Hoopoe Birds Embroidered Panel
StainsPrevious RepairsMissing Areas / HolesAdhesive Residue
Feb 19, 2019
Kate Dieringer
Some staining, repairs made with threads that are oxidizing. Edge accents are missing in some places. Glue and tape on verso.
Cleaning
Hepa-Vacuum
Feb 19, 2019
Vacuumed
Adhesive Repair/Removal
Feb 19, 2019
Used damp blotter paper and tweezers to remove tape on back.
Testing
Feb 27, 2019
Tested stain lifting gels on textile: Tergitol, Vulpex, Triton-X. Placed gel on stain and cover with silicone release paper and weighted plex cubes. Add label for type of gel as 4% agorose with 1% surfactant. Cyclomethicone D4 on spots and tidelines. Used 5.5 pH adjusted distilled H2O, adding one each to cup macro-emulsions of surfactants (A, B, C)Spot 1: A alone: partially cleaned timeline, whitened fabric too much. Wet again with cyclomethicone (100% volatile, allows wetting the surface. Alternate cleaning - allow to dry). A w/ Orvis paste, roll on spot with small sponge. Roll spot with pH 5.5 H2O. Result: cleaned tideline, lightened spot, lightened fabric too much. Will have to tea dye cloth.Spot 2: First layer cyclomethicone. Then 30 mL pH 5.5 H2O, mixed in 1 tsp Orvis paste and rinse with H2O. Result: cleaned tideline; lightened fabric too much with spot unchanged. Spot seems to be adhesive. Tried to remove with acetone on suction platen: cyclomethicone, acetone, pH H2O.Spot 3: Cyclomethicone on platen, left to dry. 5.5 pH H2O blotted on. Result: lightened stain, caused tideline, didn’t lighten fabric.
Rehousing
Mar 1, 2019
Made folder with blue board, white duct tape seam, Ethafoam padding, and Hollytex.
Wet-Clean
Mar 7, 2019 - May 3, 2019
Using previously made gels, 6% agarose gel within 2% solution of Triton X. Gels were cut out to fit directly over stains, weighted for one hour and then left to dry out. All the 6% gels dried out and removed from textile. Will use 5.5% gel on the textile and weight for 1 hour. Gels removed from textile and 5% gel with 2% triton-x made thicker to sit on textile longer. Results: Tide lines apparent after using 5% gel with 2% triton-x left to dry over the weekend. 5.75% gel with 2% Triton X tested to reduce darkened tidelines. Then added 1% tergitol and place half a day. Blotter paper and Pellon used as sandwich between textile and weights to reduce tidelines. Tested one section using cyclomethicone on tidelines with no change. Tidelines treated using 1:1 distilled water, isopropyl with 2g Chloromine T, 0.5g bleaching gel and 1g Orvus paste applied via brush on suction platen.Order of application:1. Cyclomethicone 2. Cleaning solution 3. 90% isopropyl alcohol 4. Cyclomethicone
Humidification
Jun 12, 2019 - Jun 13, 2019
Pressed out undulations and wrinkles, using three layers of blue board covered with four layers of tissue. Pressed using tacking iron or heat spatula in smaller areas, around not directly on embroidery. Slightly dampened small piece of Pellon by spraying with distilled water. Saturated and squeezed out excess. Use a layer of tissue above and below Pellon. Removed damp Pellon after pressing one time to avoid over-wetting textile. Continued pressing with tissue. Used smallsponge brush to dampen small areas between embroidery.
Wet-Clean
Jun 14, 2019 - Jun 19, 2019
Cleaned textile with cyclomethicone and sponge brush using cleaning solution: 50ml dist. H20 / 2g chlor. T 3-20 / 0.5g bleach gel / 1g. orvus paste / 1 oz isopropyl 90% / 0.5 oz hydrogen peroxide. Dabbed with sponge brush, blotted with absorbent pad, dabbed again with cyclomethicone ( to remove cleaning solution).
Lining Support
Jun 21, 2019 - Jun 26, 2019
Ironed textile, sewed loose leaf back into place, and cut fabric for lining (12" longer on width, 13" longer on height). Straight stitched on machine around edges. Pressed smooth. Constructed foam support to stretch taught lining using ethafoam blocks and bamboo skewers. Pinned lining to foam support. Pinned bottom an top edge and stitched backward looping 1/4" apart stitches. Repeated on sides.
Display Mount
Jun 27, 2019
Cut 2 sheets of thicker blueboard to mount textile. Centered textile on board and taped bottom edge with remay tape, then pulled fabric taught to tape top edge. Trimmed corners to mitered edge. Taped sides and pulled taught. Taped corners. Photographed.
Rehousing
Jun 28, 2019
Made folder (46" x 28") with blueboard. Lined with ethafoam, taped down with remay tape. Added layer of glassine, taped down. Lastly, a layer of abaca tissue over the embroidery. Used packing tape to mount page protectors on outside with photo of object and treatment report.