The Future of the 20th Century: Collecting, Interpreting and Conserving Modern Materials Edited by Cordelia Rogerson and Paul Garside
	This volume contains the edited papers and posters presented at the second annual conference of the AHRC Research Centre for Textile Conservation and Textile Studies at Winchester, UK in 2005. Modern materials, whether as art or everyday objects, are the basis of the contemporary material world. Accordingly objects encountered within museums and collections increasingly represent a broad spectrum of materials whose preservation may be without precedent. This conference was the first meeting to consider modern materials in the textile field as a subject in its own right. Topics range from familiar textile types, such as costume, to more unusual applications in suitcases, wall hangings, furniture and theatre scenery. Some papers prompt the reader to reconsider what makes a textile modern. CONTENTS Foreword Cordelia Rogerson and Paul Garside Creating and interpreting objects Scentsory Design: the emotional living tissue Jenny Tillotson Can an artist create permanence from transience? The Schmuck Quickies of Yuka Oyama become durable Cordelia Rogerson and James Beighton Interpreting the woven devoré textile Andie Robertson What makes a textile modern? The recycling of clothing in the Punjabi shoddy trade Lucy Norris Collecting modern textile materials In pursuit of forgotten fibres? The development, disappearance and rediscovery of regenerated protein fibres Mary M. Brooks ‘A bomb in the collection’: researching and exhibiting early 20th-century fashion Alexandra Palmer Early elastic threads and fibres in clothing Laura Petzold Material challenges Identifying modern materials: taking it to the collection Paul Garside and Paul Wyeth Man-made fibres from polypropylene to works of art Thea van Oosten, Ineke Joosten and Luc Megens Probing the microstructure of protein and polyamide fibres Paul Garside and Mary M. Brooks Investigating cellulose nitrate degradation caused by fungal attack Margarida Silva Polyurethane foam: investigating the physical and chemical consequences of degradation Paul Garside and Doon Lovett Sticky oilskins and stiffened rubber: new challenges for textile conservation Irene Skals and Yvonne Shashoua The effect of acid dyes on the photodegradation of knitted nylon conservation support net M.K. Sinha, R.M. Christie and R. Shamey Freezing the present to preserve the future Yvonne R. Shashoua The pits of despair? A preliminary study of the occurrence and deterioration of rubber dress shields Anna Hodson Conservation applications: object studies A global challenge: the search for conservation solutions for Eero Aarnio’s Globe/Ball chair Joelle Wickens A study of sequins on a Cantonese opera stage curtain Angela Cheung Wet look in 1960s furniture design: degradation of polyurethane-coated textile carrier substrates Tim Bechthold Storage issues for contemporary textile art: a solution for one example Rosemary Baker Television puppets from the 1960s and 1970s: creation, materials and conservation Rebecca Smith The treatment of the light-damaged nylon component of a light suit used during the test flights of Concorde c.1968 Anna Hodson Modern textile materials in practice at the State Hermitage Museum Elena Mikolaychuk Published 2006
	ISBN: 1904982174	£37.50 / $80.00
	Paperback 150 pages Pages 120 halftones plus 16 pages colour plates Illustrations
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