Tiraz textiles: a review of past treatments in preparation for the opening of the new Gallery of Islamic Art at the Detroit Institute of Arts

Autor:	Howard Sutcliffe
Rok vydání:	2011
Předmět:	Grave goods Islamic art business.industry media_common.quotation_subject Context (language use) Conservation Art Clothing The arts Past treatments Visual arts Media Technology General Materials Science business media_common
Zdroj:	Journal of the Institute of Conservation. 34:39-52
ISSN:	1945-5232 1945-5224
DOI:	10.1080/19455224.2011.572271
Popis:	Re-imagining the way in which the Islamic art collection is exhibited at the Detroit Institute of Arts meant revisiting the ways in which it had been conserved and presented in the past. This article evaluates the way in which a collection of tiraz textiles from Medieval Egypt were conserved and displayed in the 1980s and how this informed a new conservation and display strategy for re-treating the textiles in 2010 using updated mounting techniques and materials. The textiles, which are predominantly fragments of clothing and shrouds, would have been excavated from a burial environment. Once accessioned into the museum's collection they were pressure mounted and framed, which led to them being viewed on the wall as pictures rather than as grave goods. This article will explore the collaboration between conservator and curator that led to a re-interpretation of the textiles to better connect them to their original context.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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