30 June. This compilation of articles honours Ágnes Timár-Balázsy who dedicated her life to chemistry and textiles conservation as a teacher, writer and researcher. The volume was originally published in Hungarian by Pulszky Hungarian Museums Association (HMA) in 2004.

The book is priced at 35 euros and can be purchased from the online bookshop.
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Contents

• In memoriam: Ágnes Timár-Balázsy
• Conservation of silk finds dating to the Anjou period (1301-1387)
  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
  Judit B. Perjés, Emil Ráduly and Mária Újvári
• The conservation of two medieval parchment codices
  Ildikó Beöthy Kozocsa
• Conservation decision-making: from object to collection to community and back again
  Dinah Eastop
• The image of a crucified man on the Turin Shroud: measures taken for conservation of the legibility of the body image
  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
  Katalin Dózsa
• Dyeing black in seventeenth-century Holland
  Judith H. Hofenk de Graaff
• Metal thread variations and materials: simple methods of pre-treatment identification for historical textiles
  Márta Járó
• Assessing the risk of wet-cleaning metal threads
  Katia Johansen
• Eastern and Western influences on Hungarian footwear of the thirteenth-seventeenth centuries
  Márta Kissné Bendefy
• Problems of the second restoration of two general’s atillas (military coats) from 1848/49
  Mária Kralovánszky
• Academic training of conservator-restorers in Austria: past experiences and future perspectives
  Gabriela Krist
• Lace from the Secession (Hungarian Art Nouveau): sewn, coloured lace articles
  Emőke László
• The conservation of the painted cloth travelling ‘tapestry’ of Ferenc Rákóczi II
  Györk Mátéfy
• The philosophy of restoration: new for old?
  Andrew Oddy
• Bulya vászon: a type of loosely woven cloth
  Emese Pásztor
• Restoration of an embroidered board game
  Anikó Pataki
• Conservation of ancient Egyptian painted artefacts
  Anne Rinuy
• The evolution of conservation and restoration as reflected in the Coptic textile collection of the Textile Museum of Lyon
  Marie Schoefer-Masson
• Figures from a Neapolitan nativity crèche
  Enikő Sipos
• The conservation of the flag of the Loránd Eötvös University
  Nikolett Szederkényi
• The symbolic meaning of red in seventeenth-century clothing
  Lilla Tompos

updated on: 1 December, 2009