Rome: ICCROM, , 2009; vii, 187 p.
ISBN: 92-9077-218-2; language: English

Abstract
The book contains a compilation of articles in memory of Ágnes Timár-Balázsy who dedicated her life to chemistry and textile conservation as a teacher, writer, researcher. The volume was originally published in Hungarian by Pulszky Hungarian Museums Association (HMA) in 2004. Contents In memoriam: Ágnes Timár-Balázsy; Conservation of silk finds dating to the Anjou period (1301-1387) by Judit B. Perjés, Katalin E. Nagy and Márta Tóth; Excavation of the crypt of the Dominican Church in Vác: preserving coffins, dress and other funerary paraphernalia, 1731-1808 by Judit B. Perjés, Emil Ráduly and Mária Újvári; The conservation of two medieval parchment codices by Ildikó Beöthy Kozocsa; Conservation decision-making: from object to collection to community and back again by Dinah Eastop; The image of a crucified man on the Turin Shroud: measures taken for conservation of the legibility of the body image by Mechthild Flury-Lemberg; An eighteenth-century Hungarian court dress with nineteenth-century alterations: an example of historicism in the collections of the Hungarian National Museum by Katalin Dózsa; Dyeing black in seventeenth-century Holland by Judith H. Hofenk de Graaff; Metal thread variations and materials: simple methods of pre-treatment identification for historical textiles by Márta Járó; Assessing the risk of wet-cleaning metal threads by Katia Johansen; Eastern and Western influences on Hungarian footwear of the thirteenth-seventeenth centuries by Márta Kissné Bendefy; Problems of the second restoration of two general’s atillas (military coats) from 1848/49 by Mária Kralovánszky; Academic training of conservator-restorers in Austria: past experiences and future perspectives by Gabriela Krist; Lace from the Secession (Hungarian Art Nouveau): sewn, coloured lace articles by Emoke László; The conservation of the painted cloth travelling ‘tapestry’ of Ferenc Rákóczi II by Györk Mátéfy; The philosophy of restoration: new for old? by Andrew Oddy; Bulya vászon: a type of loosely woven cloth by Emese Pásztor; Restoration of an embroidered board game by Anikó Pataki; Conservation of ancient Egyptian painted artefacts by Anne Rinuy; The evolution of conservation and restoration as reflected in the Coptic textile collection of the Textile Museum of Lyon by Marie Schoefer-Masson; Figures from a Neapolitan nativity crèche by Eniko Sipos; The conservation of the flag of the Loránd Eötvös University by Nikolett Szederkényi; The symbolic meaning of red in seventeenth-century clothing by Lilla Tompos.

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