The City of Tucson's Environmental Management Division has provided a comprehensive chart which gives detailed information about 20 hazards to health and safety for textile artists. Information is provided for hazards specific to vegetable, animal and man-made fibers and extensive information is given about dyes and dyeing processes. Chart headings include: Ingestion Hazards; Inhalation Hazards; Skin Contact Hazards; Other Hazards; and Precautions.
Textile Art Hazards:
http://www.ci.tucson.az.us/arthazards/text1.html
Textile Art Mordant Hazards:
http://www.ci.tucson.az.us/arthazards/text2.html
Painting and Drawing Pigment Hazards:
http://www.ci.tucson.az.us/arthazards/paint1.html
Painting and Drawing Preservative Hazards:
http://www.ci.tucson.az.us/arthazards/paint2.html
Painting and Drawing Technique Hazards:
http://www.ci.tucson.az.us/arthazards/paint3.html
Printmaking Technique Hazards:
http://www.ci.tucson.az.us/arthazards/print.html
Information also is available specific to: Ceramics, Child Art, Child Art Materials to Avoid, Child Art Rules for Safety, Commericial Art, Glass Art, Jewelry, Metalworking, Metalworking Patina Hazards, Modern Technology in Art, Other Art (includes info about papermaking, marbelizing, leathercraft, and feathers - among others), Photography, Photography Chemicals, Sculpture, Woodworking, and Woodworking Toxic Woods.
http://www.ci.tucson.az.us/arthazards/medium.html
2 comments:
Gwen thank you so much for these links...I love surface design and complex cloth but also have a serious pulmonary disease so I'll be reading through these this week.
Karoda, make sure you also read an earlier post about studio safety - Susan Louise Moyer shares a lot of detailed information about making a surface design studio safe:
http://creativityjourney.blogspot.com/2007/12/studio-ventilation-ideas-susan-louise.html
Gwen
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