Culture Builds Community: Textiles

  • Alternative Materials for Rolling Textiles: This tutorial provides an overview to inexpensive alternatives to acid free tubes for rolling textiles.
  • Folding Garments for Housing Collections: This video demonstrates how to fold garments for flat housing in collections. Heald discusses the materials needed to fold garments, how to set up a garment before folding it, and how to build padding to help in the folding process.
  • Rolling Textiles for Housing Collections: Topics included included in this video are: handling textiles, materials needed for rolling textiles, how to set up the textile before rolling it, and how to protect and secure the textile roll for storage.
  • Soft Storage and Packing Foam Core: This tutorial provides examples of various kinds of foam board, and demonstrates how foam core is used for storing museum collections.
  • Tips for Surface Cleaning Textiles and Garments, Part 1 of 2: This video discusses methods of dry surface cleaning for different types of soiling on various fabrics, and demonstrates tips and tricks for vacuuming in concert with common materials such as insect screening.
  • Tips for Surface Cleaning Textiles and Garments, Part 2 of 2: This part 2 video discusses methods of dry surface cleaning for different types of soiling on various fabrics, and demonstrates tips and tricks for vacuuming in concert with common materials such as eye droppers and air bulbs.

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