X-radiography of textiles, dress and related objects
By: Sonia O'Connor, Mary M. Brooks.
Contributors: Brooks, Mary M.; State University College at Buffalo. Dept. of Art Conservation
Series: Butterworth-Heinemann series in conservation and museology
Publisher: Elsevier/Butterworth-Heinemann
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Amsterdam; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780750666329
Subjects: Textile fabrics -- Radiography.; Radiography in archaeology.; Expertising, X-ray.; Museum conservation methods.
Other titles: Art Conservation Department Library
Description: Explores the potential of X-radiography as a tool for the characterization, condition assessment and study of ancient, historic, and contemporary textiles, and hence, to aid conservation decision making and curatorial studies.
Notes: Art Conservation Department Library.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 1: Textile X-radiography; title: Introduction / Sonia O'Connor and Mary M. Brooks; title: Principles of X-radiography / Sonia O'Connor; title: High definition X-radiography of textiles: methods and approaches / Sonia O'Connor; title: Textile X-radiography and digital imaging / Sonia O'Connor and Jason Maher; title: Image interpretation / Sonia O'Connor; title: Assessing the risks of X-radiography to textiles / Sonia O'Connor with a contribution on DNA by Jason Maher; title: Radiation safety / Graham Hart; title: 2: Exploring the X-radiographic features of textile objects / Sonia O'Connor and Mary M. Brooks; title: Materials; title: Threads, fabrics and construction techniques; title: Surface decoration; title: Makers and making, degradation and repair; title: 3: Case studies; title: Introduction / Mary M. Brooks and Sonia O'Connor; title: Evaluating X-radiography as a tool for examining upholstered furniture / Kathryn Gill; title: The use of X-radiography in the Textile Conservation Laboratory, Opificio delle Pietro Dure, Florence: methodological, technical and research approaches towards a non-invasive investigative technique / Susanna Conti and Alfredo Aldrovandi; title: The role of X-radiography in the documentation and investigation of an eighteenth century multi-layered stomacher / Gabriella Barbieri; title: Hidden Structures: the use of X-radiography in the Fashion Gallery at Snibston discovery park, Leicestershire / Clare Bowyer; title: X-radiography of a knitted silk stocking with metal thread embroidery / Sonia O'Connor, Mary M. Brooks and Josie Sheppard; title: A chalice veil rediscovered / Sonia O'Connor and Mary M. Brooks; title: The use of X-radiography in the analysis and conservation documentation of a set of seventeenth century hanging wall pockets / Mary M. Brooks and Sonia O'Connor; title: 'In needle works there doth great knowledge rest': the contribution of X-radiography to the understanding of seventeenth century English embroideries from the Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archeology, Oxford / Mary M. Brooks and Sonia O'Connor; title: X-radiography of dolls and toys / Mary M. Brooks, Sonia O'Connor and Josie Sheppard; title: X-radiography of teddy bears and other textile artefacts at the Victoria & Albert Museum / Marion Kite; title: X-radiography of patchwork and quilts / Mary M. Brooks, Sonia O'Connor and Josie Sheppard; title: Revealing the layers: the X-radiography of eighteenth century shoes at Hampshire County Council Museums and Archives Service / Sarah Howard and Robert Holmes; title: The contribution of X-radiography to the conservation and study of textile/leather composite archaeological footwear recovered from the Norwegian Arctic / Elizabeth E. Peacock; title: Controlled lifting and X-radiography of gold threads from ancient archaeological textiles / Elizabeth Barham; title: X-radiography of ethnographic objects at the Horniman Museum / Louis Bacon; title: The use of X-radiography in the conservation treatment and reinterpretation of an incomplete musette / Sylvie François; title: X-radiographic examination of a historic mannequin on display in Edinburgh, Castle, Scotland / David Starley and Fiona Cahill; title: X-radiography of Rembrandt's paintings on canvas / Ernst van de Wetering Précis by Mary M. Brooks and Sonia O'Connor.