The Textile Conservation Centre

Academic and Public Outcomes

AHRC Research Centre in Textile Conservation and Textile Studies 2002-2007

MILESTONES

Publication Milestones

  1. Book: Dress at the Court of Henry VIII
  2. Book: x-radiography of organic artefacts
  3. Scientific Analysis of Ancient & Historic Textiles. Informing Preservation, Display and Interpretation. Post-prints of first AHRC Research Centre international conference, 2004
  4. Book: Tapestry Conservation: Principles and Practice
  5. The Future of the Twentieth Century: Collecting, Interpreting and Conserving Modern Materials. Post-prints of the second international conference, 2005
  6. Textiles and Text: Re-establishing the Links Between Archival and Object-Based Research. Post-prints of the third international conference, 2006
  7. An average of three articles per year arising from RCTC research being accepted for publication in peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings, e.g. in ‘Studies in Conservation’ (IIC); ‘The Conservator’ (UKIC); ‘Textile History’ (Pasold Foundation); the ‘Preprints of the Triennial Meeting of ICOM-CC’ (2005) and the ‘Preprints of the Biennial Conferences of IIC meetings (2003 or 2005, depending on the topic selected for the conferences).

Exhibition Milestones

  1. Travelling exhibition of concealed garments, Hidden House History (in conjunction with Hampshire County Council Museum Service)
  2. Wrapping the Globe - Exhibition at the Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter, on the use of British exported wool in colonial-era ‘ethnographic’ collections.

Conference Milestones

3 Conferences with high quality speakers and broad sector attendance (see Conference post-prints listed above 5, 6, 7):

  1. Scientific Analysis of Ancient & Historic Textiles. Informing Preservation, Display and Interpretation 2004
     
  2. The Future of the Twentieth Century: Collecting, Interpreting and Conserving Modern Materials 2005

  3. Textiles and Text: Re-establishing the Links Between Archival and Object-Based Research 2006

Related Research Milestone

MA/MSc/MPhil/PhD research on topics related to RCTC themes at all three partner institutions. Expect an average of one per year in each of the three partner institutions.

Outreach Milestones

  1. Web-site for RCTC established, and linked to existing web-sites at the three partner universities
  2. Increased public awareness of textile conservation, via regular press coverage: a ‘story’ every six months for each of the five years of the grant.