Table of Contents:
  • Conservation and degradation of textiles
  • 1. Charting the future: conservation principles of Henry Francis du Pont / Margaret A. Fikioris
  • 2. Age determination of textiles from single-fiber creep measurements / Randall R. Bresee, Venkatramana Chandrashekar, and Byron W. Jones
  • 3. Evaluation of degradation in museum textiles using property kinetics / Jeanette M. Cardamone and Peter Brown
  • 4. Studying the cause and type of fiber damage in textile materials by scanning electron microscopy / S.H. Zeronioan, K.W. Alger, M.S. Ellison, and S.M. Al-Khayatt
  • 5. Fractography of historic silk fibers / Randall R. Bresee and Gail Elizabeth Goodyear
  • 6. Degradation of silk by heat and light / R.V. Kuruppillai, S.P. Hersh, and P.A. Tucker
  • Characterization and preservation of textiles
  • 7. A systematic method for differentiating between 18th century painted-printed Chinese and Western silks / Maruta Skelton and Leanna Lee-Whitman
  • 8. Identification of dyes in historic textile materials / Helmut Schweppe
  • 9. Analysis of natural dyes on wool substrates using reverse-phase high-performance liquid chromatography / Cynthia Walker and Howard L. Needles
  • 10. 3600 years of purple-shell dyeing: characterization of hyacinthine purple (Tekhelet) / I. Irving Ziderman
  • 11. Mordanted, natural-dyed wool and silk fabrics: light and burial-induced changes in the color and tensile properties / Howard L. Needles, Vicki Cassman, and Martha J. Collins
  • 12. Experimental studies on the effect of aqueous and nonaqueous treatments on historic textiles / Manfred Wentz
  • 13. Characterization of metallic yarns in historic Persian textiles by microanalysis / Ian R. Hardin and Frances J. Duffield
  • 14. Characterization pf selected prehistoric fabrics of Southeastern North America / Lucy R. Sibley and Kathryn A. Jakes
  • 15. Replacement of protein and cellulosic fibers by copper minerals and formation of textile pseudomorphs / Kathryn A. Jakes and J. Hatten Howard III
  • Conservation, degradation, and characterization of paper
  • 16. Standards for archival materials / William K. Wilson and Susan Lee-Bechtold
  • 17. Monitoring the autoxidation of paper using photographic materials / Vincent D. Daniels
  • 18. The kinetics of cellulose deterioration / R.L. Feller, S.B. Lee, and J. Bogaard
  • 19. Fourier transform IT spectroscopy and electron spectroscopy for chemical analysis: use in the study of paper documents / David N.-S. Hon
  • 20. Gel permeation chromatography: use in estimating the effect of water washing on the long-term stability of cellulosic fibers / Helen D. Burgess
  • 21. Influence of the hemicellulose fraction on thermal and photochemical discoloration of paper / S.B. Lee and R.L. Feller
  • 22. The influence of copper and iron on the permanence of paper / Chandru J. Shahani and Frank H. Hengemihle
  • 23. Accelerated aging of cellulosic textiles at different temperatures: the effect of tetrahydridoborate reduction / Ira Block and Hye Kyung Kim
  • 24. Stabilization of paper through sodium borohydride treatment / Lucia C. Tang.