The Conservation of tapestries and embroideries

Of the discussions -- The conservation of embroideries at the Institut royal du patrimoine artistique -- The restoration of the Antependium of the Mus?e Paul Dupuy in Toulouse -- The Burgundian vestments -- Three embroidered pilaster panels from the Church of San Pietroat Broni -- Restoration of a seventeenth-century Chasuble at the Mus?e historique des tissus in Lyons -- The restoration of a twelfth-century Liturgical Sandal at the Mus?e historique des tissus in Lyons -- Second sight : further investigation into the construction of ecclesiastical embroideries and tapestries -- Conservation maintenance of tapestries at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1987 -- Tapestries : conservation and original design -- Conservation of a Fifteenth-century tapestry from Franconia -- The tapestries of the Sala dei Duecento in the Palazzo Vecchio -- Gluttony and avarice : two different approaches -- Two case histories : a seventeenth-century Antwerp tapestry and an eighteenth-century English Soho tapestry -- The conservation/restoration of the sixteenth-century tapestry, The gathering of the Manna -- The treatment of two sixteenth-century tapestries at the Institut royal du patrimoine artistique.

Contributors discuss current research, new findings, specific problems, innovations, methods, and materials regarding the conservation of tapestries and embroideries.