Monday, October 29, 2007

Salvaging Textiles after Water and Fire Disasters

Emergency Salvage Procedures for Wet Items: Textiles and Clothing - Minnesota Historical Society
http://www.mnhs.org/preserve/conservation/reports/textiles_clothing.pdf

Salvaging Water Damaged Textiles – The American Institute for Conservation of Historic & Artistic Works (AIC)
http://aic.stanford.edu/library/online/disaster/txsalv.html

Salvage at a Glance Part V: Textiles – National Park Service
http://www.nps.gov/history/museum/publications/conserveogram/21-08.pdf

How to Care for and Salvage Your Textiles After a Flood – Historic Textiles Studio
http://www.textilepreservation.com/flood.htm

Washing Will Remove Soot, Odors - New Mexico State University College of Agriculture and Home Economics
http://cahe.nmsu.edu/news/2000/052300_washing.html

Cleaning of Fire Damaged Watercolor and Textiles Using Atomic Oxygen – NASA – this is very interesting and is apparently quite effective, but where and how would you or I get our hands on some atomic oxygen – and what would we do with it once we got it?
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/20000083957_2000118143.pdf

1 comment:

Sonji Hunt said...

I had a customer who had a fire in her condo last year and she had to have the piece that she purchased from me cleaned with that atomized method. It looks and feels exactly the same as when she purchased it. Amazing process.