Textile and Fashion Museums: how to preserve textile, during and after its exhibition

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 ...