This blog deals
with textile and fashion museums in
France, and show some examples
of those in other
countries.
These museums
preserve and exhibit particular collections of textile . Preserving
and showing textile items are considered to be the most difficult
things because of the materials used which are extremely fragile.
Textile are made of
organic
materials: vegetable fiber (cotton, linen), animal fiber (silk,
wool), artificial or synthetic ones. So it is sensitive to environmental factors: light, temperature, humidity, insect
can all damage the textile, depending on their intensity.
An item exhibited
during 5 months should stay in the dark, immune to dust and attacks
from outside, such as sun rays or humidity , during more or less 4 years.
Missions
of those museums are difficult, but it's still enriching and fascinating.
My aim is to present you, through this blog, the
aspects of these museums, their exhibitions which
I saw or interested me, the conditions of conservation, the
storerooms, the restoration ...
