Talk:Conservation and restoration of quilts

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Just to note

1) it's 'Conservation Science' and not 'Conservation Restoration Science'. And you could also probably add the link to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservation_science_%28cultural_heritage%29 as well as the conservation scientist one.

2)I'd probably take off economics from the list of skills sets... they're hard scientists and none train as economists as a route into the field.

3) Agents section... its not "for the most part"... it is all objects that are made by people.

--Daniel Cull (talk) 20:52, 3 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

'The conservation and restoration of quilts refers to the processes involved in maintaining the integrity of quilts and/or restoring them so that they may be preserved for future generations. '

Good start, but should be re-worded perhaps to something more vague (we don't know if art conservation-restoration maintains integrity or restores so that they may be preserved for future generations).

How about - The conservation-restoration of quilts refers to the decisions and practices involved in preserving the structural and cosmetic features of an individual quilt or a collection of quilts.

Rose Daly (talk) 13:07, 29 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Also in this section, consider formatting it the same as other articles, e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservation_and_restoration_of_photographic_plates so you can see in this one the title bit is bolded, with no links, and then the links appear within the following description. It's also fairly short which is standard for most Wikipedia articles. You sort of want a 1 or 2 sentence introduction. --Daniel Cull (talk) 13:27, 29 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

This sentence can be removed - A great resource for information on textile conservation is "Chemical Principles of Textile Conservation" by Agnes Timar-Balazsy and Dinah Eastop.[1] - Just cite the resource, it is an introduction, you can cite an entire book.

Rose Daly (talk) 13:08, 29 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

In general, spend less time defining what a quilt is and less time defining what conservation is and focus on the conservation of quilts. Try not to make yourself too busy doing work that already exists on Wikipedia.

I like the image of a quilt exhibit in Agents of Deterioration, at that image you could mention that touching quilts on exhibit is a possible agent of deterioration.

There are a variety of different values that can be preserved in the preservation of a quilt, the patchwork, the quilting stitching, or the quilt as a whole artefact. The thing to remember with these materials is that choices are made about what is important to preserve. Those choices determine the goal of a conservation treatment, and the skill and experience/knowledge of a conservator-restorer determines the outcome of a treatment.

Think if you had to explain quilt conservation in 5 points, what would they be?

Rose Daly (talk) 13:15, 29 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Wow... that image! Not you could... you *must* mention in the caption that touching is an AoD. --Daniel Cull (talk) 13:27, 29 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]