Albany 2003

Vibrant Dancers: Egungun Costumes from Southwestern Nigeria / Dorothy Stites Alig
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Secret Agents: Deliberately Concealed Garments as Symbolic Textiles / Dinah Eastop and Charlotte Dew
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Religious Symbolic Textiles in Himalayan Monasteries: Prayer Flags, Banners and Thangkas. / Ann Shaftel
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Clear as Mud: How Cultural Significance Determines Preservation Choices. / Sarah Clayton, Wendy Dodd, Victoria Gill and Bridie Kirkpatrick
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Preservation of Stripes, Stars and Swastikas. / Lizou Fenyvesi
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Documenting and Preserving Woven and Constructed Materials on a Collection of Early Nineteenth Century Native North American Objects. / T. Rose Holdcraft
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Amos Bad Heart Bull’s Painted Textile: A Document of Cultures and Conflicts. / Virginia Jarvis Whelan
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"For Which It Stands": American Patriotism in Material Culture. / Marilyn Zoidis
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Flag Conservation Then and Now. / Deborah Lee Trupin
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MFAH Texas Flags: 1836-1945 Flags as Fine Art? / Fonda Ghiardi Thomsen
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What If You Can’t Afford To Make a Mistake: Developing an Experimental Protocol for the Treatment of the Star-Spangled Banner. / Fenella G. France and Suzanne Thomassen-Krauss
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Different Restoration Treatments on 19th Century Silk Banners and Flags. / Fanny Espinoza
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United We Stand! The Conservation of Trade Union Banners. / Frances Lennard and Vivian Lochhead
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"Go Thou and Do Likewise"? The Conservation of the Ebrington Friendly Society Banner. / Ann French and Nicola Gentle
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Moving Pictures: Adapting Painting Conservation Techniques to the Treatment of Painted Textiles. / Nancy R. Pollak
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The Conservation of Savonarola’s Banner. / Mary Westerman Bulgarella and Susanna Conti
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Avendale for Reformation: Conservation of a 17th Century Covenanting Banner. / Lynn McClean and Elizabeth-Anne Haldane
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The Effectiveness of Adhesive Support Treatments for Flags and Banners: Condition of Treated Artifacts in Canada and the UK. / Irene F. Karsten and Nancy Kerr
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Facing the Future: The Use of Cyclododecane and Re-Moistenable Tissue Paper in the Conservation of a Painted Silk Flag. / Joanne Hackett and Beth Szuhay

PANEL DISCUSSION

Looking at our History, Listening to Our Client. / Harold F. Mailand
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What so Proudly We Hailed: One Museum’s Effort to Conserve Historic Flags. / Barbara L. Rowe
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Saving Maine’s Colours: Strategies in Flag Conservation & Exhibition at the Maine State Museum. / Gwen Spicer, Laureen LaBar, Susan Adler, Marion Scharoun and Dona Smith
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Do You Know Where You Are? Silk Flank Markers from the Civil War. / Sarah C. Stevens

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The Treatment of a Campaign Banner: An Option for Consolidating Powdery Paint. / Mary Betlejeski and Gwen Spicer
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Just How Do You Apply Routine Treatments to a Large and Fragile Textile?: Lateral Thinking and the Richmond Colours of the Victorian Volunteer Rifle Corps. / Catherine Challenor
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A Banner from the Era of the Scandinavianism Movement. / Pia Christensson
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The Conservation and Restoration of the Alamo Flag. / Noemí Cortés and Guillermina Peña
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Identification through Symbols. / Ileana Cretu
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A Comparative Study of the Ethics and Techniques of Conserving Two Pairs of Nineteenth Century Colours from Guernsey. / Tamara Frost
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A 17th-Century Flocked Textile. / Elizabeth C. Griffin
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King in All But Name? The Conservation of a Majesty Scutcheon Looted from Oliver Cromwell’s State Funeral. / Cordelia Rogerson
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The Escuadrón Activo De Veracruz Flag: Reflections on the Criteria for Flag Conservation. / Lorena Román, Cecilia Becerra, Claudia de la Fuente, Abner Gutiérrez, Nicolás Gutiérrez and Fernando Sánchez Guevara
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Contract for Eternity: Preserving a Hearse Cloth Made in 1505 For Henry VII (b. 1455, d. 1509). / Joelle D.J. Wickens and Dr. Maria Hayward

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