The Textile Conservation Centre

Dr Dinah Eastop Publications

Dinah Eastop PhD MA FIIC FHEA

Until the TCC's closure in 2009, Dinah was Senior Lecturer at the TCC.   From 2002-2004 was also founding Director of the AHRC Research Centre for Textile Conservation and Textile Studies

In progress:

EASTOP, D. (commissioned for 2010.) Conservation practice as enacted ethics. In: J. MARSTINE, ed. Routledege Companion to Museum Ethics: Redefining Ethics for the Twenty-First Century Musuem. London: Routledge.

BROOKS, M. M. and EASTOP, D., eds. Readings in Textile Conservation. (Working title.) Los Angeles: Getty Conservation Institute.

Submitted:

DULIEU-BARTON, J.M., KHENNOUF, D., CHAMBERS, A.R., LENNARD, F.J. and EASTOP, D. E. Application of digital image correlation to deformation measurements in textiles. In: Proceedings of Photomechanics 2008, Loughborough. (CD_Rom format).

EASTOP, D. and GOLDBERG, D. (Submitted – under review.) Toy story economics: The animation of capital and the materialisation of culture. Journal of Material Culture.

In Press:

EASTOP, D. 2009. History-making and the conservation of garments concealed within buildings. In: C. RICHARDSON and HAMLING, eds. Everyday Objects: Medieval and Early Modern Material Culture and its Meanings. Aldershot: Ashgate.

MARGARITI, C., EASTOP, D. MORAITOU, G. and WYETH, P. 2009. The application of analytical methods of investigation to textiles excavated in Greece towards the development of an informed conservation strategy. In: Postprints of the 5th Symposium of the Hellenic Society of Archaeometry, 8010 October 2008. Athens: Hellenic Society of Archaeometry.

MARGARITI, C., EASTOP, D. MORAITOU, G. and WYETH, P. 2009. Potential and limitations on the application of FTIR microscopy to the analysis and characterisation of textiles excavated in Greece. In: Postprints of the 10th North European Symposium of Archaeological Textiles (NESAT X), 13-18 May 2008. Copenhagen: NESAT.

EASTOP, D. 2009. The cultural dynamics of conservation principles in reported practice. In: A. RICHMOND and A. BRACKER, eds. Conservation: Principles, Dilemmas and Uncomfortable Truths. Oxford: Elsevier, 150-162.

EASTOP, D. Conservation decision-making: from object to collection to community and back again. In: I. ERI, ed. Memorial Volume for Ágnes Timar-Balazsy. Budapest: Hungarian National Museum.

EASTOP, D. The preservation and representation of Haddon’s string figures over a century. In: M. WRIGHT, ed. The Conservation of Ethnographic Artefacts: A Miscellany. Questioning the Boundaries of Ethnography: the Presentation and Collection Care of Ethnographic Material. Postprints of the 2005 Forum of the Ethnography Section of Icon, held in Cardiff. London: Archetype.

EASTOP, D. and DEW, C. Changing views of garments deliberately concealed within buildings. In: M. WRIGHT, ed. The Conservation of Ethnographic Artefacts: A Miscellany. Questioning the Boundaries of Ethnography: the Presentation and Collection Care of Ethnographic Material. Postprints of the 2005 Forum of the Ethnography Section of Icon, held in Cardiff. London: Archetype.

Published:

MORRIS, B. and EASTOP, D. 2010. Textile conservation as material culture: the case of Grace Kelly’s wedding dress. In: F. LENNARD and P.EWER, eds. Textile Conservation: Advances in Practice. Oxford: Elsevier.

YE, C.C., DULIEU-BARTON, J. M., CHAMBERS, A.R., LENNARD, F.J. and EASTOP, D.D. 2009. Condition monitoring of textiles using optical techniques. Key Engineering Materials, 413-414, 447-454.

DEISSER, A-M. and EASTOP, D. 2008. Traditions and conventions in the care of tangible and intangible heritage in Ankober, Ethiopia: a partnership model in practice. In: J. BRIDGLAND, ed. Preprints ICOM Committee for Conservation, 15th Triennial Conference New Delhi, 22-26 September 2008. New Delhi: Allied Publishers, 1029-1034.

LENNARD, F., EASTOP, D., DULIEU-BARTON, J. M., YE, C.C., KHENNOUF, D., CHAMBERS, A. R. and WILLIAMS, H. 2008. Progress in strain monitoring of tapestries. In: J BRIDGLAND, ed. Preprints ICOM Committee for Conservation, 15th Triennial Conference New Delhi, 22-26 September 2008. New Delhi: Allied Publishers, 843-848.

DULIEU-BARTON, J.M., YE, C.C., CHAMBERS, A.R., LENNARD, F.J. and EASTOP, D.E. 2008. Optical fibre sensors for monitoring damage in historic tapestries. In: Proceedings of the XIth International Congress on Experimental and Applied Mechanics, June 2-5, 2008, Orlando, Florida. (CD_Rom format)

EASTOP, D. and SIMILA, K. 2007. Documentation as process and outcome. In: R. VAROLI-PIAZZA, ed. Sharing Conservation Decisions. Rome: ICCROM, 114-117.

LENNARD, F. and EASTOP, D. 2007. Image, object, context: image re-integration in textile conservation. In: A. J. E. BROWN, ed. The Postprints of the Image. Re-integration Conference. Proceedings of the 2nd Triennial Conservation Conference at Northumbria University, 15-17 September 2003. Newcastle upon Tyne: Northumbria University Press, 7-14

EASTOP, D. 2007. Sound recording and text creation: oral history and the Deliberately Concealed Garments Project. In: M. HAYWARD and E. KRAMER, eds. Textiles and Text: Re-establishing the Links Between Archival and Object-Based Research. Postprints of the Third AHRC Research Centre for Textile Conservation and Textile Studies Conference, 2006. London: Archetype, 65-70.

EASTOP, D. 2007. Material culture in action: conserving garments deliberately concealed within buildings. Anais do Museu Paulista: História e Cultura Material [Journal of the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil], 15 (1) [January-June 2007],187-204.

EASTOP, D. 2007. Playing with Haddon’s string figures. Textile, The Journal of Cloth and Culture, 5 (2), 172-187.

BROOKS, M. M. and EASTOP, D. 2007. Integration, curation and conservation – recent developments at the Textile Conservation Centre, UK. Context (Journal of the New Zealand Costume & Textile Section, Auckland Museum Institute), 13, 16-17

DULIEU-BARTON, J.M., SAHIN, M., LENNARD, F. J., EASTOP, D. E. and CHAMBERS, A.R. 2007. Assessing the feasibility of monitoring the condition of historic tapestries using engineering techniques. Key Engineering Materials, 347, 187-192.

EASTOP, D. 2006. Conservation as social and material. Icon News. (Intervention column.) 5, 56.

BROOKS, M. M. and EASTOP, D. 2006. Matter out of place: paradigms for analyzing textile cleaning. Journal of the American Institute of Conservation, 45 (3), 171-181.

EASTOP, D. 2006. Conservation as material culture. In: C. TILLEY, W.KEANE, S. KUECHLER, M.ROWLANDS and P. SPYER, eds. Handbook of Material Culture. London: Sage, 516-533.

EASTOP, D. 2006. A conservação de têxties como uma práctica de conservação, de investigação e de apresentação. In: C. T. DE PAULA, ed. Tecidos e sua Conservacao no Brasil: Museus e Collecoes. [Textile Conservation in Brazil: Museums and Collections.] Preprints of the International Seminar arranged by the Museu Paulista of USP, 8-13 May 2006. Sao Paulo: Museu Paulista do USP, 52-58.

EASTOP, D. 2006. A conservação de têxties como cultura material. In: C. T. DE PAULA, ed. Tecidos e sua Conservacao no Brasil: Museus e Collecoes. [Textile Conservation in Brazil: Museums and Collections.] Preprints of the International Seminar arranged by the Museu Paulista of USP, 8-13 May 2006. Sao Paulo: Museu Paulista do USP, 121-122.

EASTOP, D. 2006. Textile conservation as a practice of preservation, investigation and presentation. In: C. T. DE PAULA, ed. Tecidos e sua Conservacao no Brasil: Museus e Collecoes. [Textile Conservation in Brazil: Museums and Collections.] Preprints of the International Seminar arranged by the Museu Paulista of USP, 8-13 May 2006. Sao Paulo: Museu Paulista do USP, 238-244.

EASTOP, D. 2006. Textile conservation as material culture. In: C. T. DE PAULA, ed. Tecidos e sua Conservacao no Brasil: Museus e Collecoes. [Textile Conservation in Brazil: Museums and Collections.] Preprints of the International Seminar arranged by the Museu Paulista of USP, 8-13 May 2006. Sao Paulo: Museu Paulista do USP Sao Paulo: Museu Paulista do USP, 307-308.

EASTOP, D. 2006. Outside in: making sense of the deliberate concealment of garments within buildings. Textile, The Journal of Cloth and Culture. 4 (3), 238-255.

EASTOP, D. and Dew, C. 2006. Context and meaning generation: the conservation of garments deliberately concealed within buildings. In: D. SAUNDERS, J.H. TOWNSEND and S. WOODCOCK eds The Object in Context: Crossing Conservation Boundaries. Preprints of the Biennial Congress of IIC, Munich, 2006. London: International Institute of Conservation, 17-22.

EASTOP, D. and McEWING, R. 2005. Informing textile and wildlife conservation: DNA analysis of baleen from an 18th century garment found deliberately concealed in a building. In: R. JANAWAY and P. WYETH, eds. Scientific Analysis of Ancient and Historic Textiles: Informing Preservation, Display and Interpretation. Postprints of the First Annual Conference of the AHRC Research Centre for Textile Conservation and Textile Studies, Winchester, 13-15 July 2004. London: Archetype, 161-167.

DULIEU-BARTON, J. M., DOKOS, L., EASTOP, D., LENNARD, F., CHAMBERS, A. R. and SAHIN, M. 2005. Deformation and strain measurement techniques for the inspection of damage in works of art. Reviews in Conservation, 6, 63-73.

LOVETT, D. and EASTOP, D. 2004. The degradation of polyester polyurethane: preliminary study of 1960s foam-laminated dresses. Modern Art, New Museums. Postprints of International Institute of Conservation’s 20th International Congress, Bilbao, Spain, 13-17 September 2004. London: International Institute of Conservation, 100-104.

EASTOP, D. 2003. The biography of objects: a tool for analysing an object’s significance. In: Department of Museums and Antiquities, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. International workshop on flexible materials in Asian collections. Exchange of approaches to conservation, presentation and use. Kuala Lumpur: Department of Museums and Antiquities, 100-113

EASTOP, D. 2003. Getting to know the object in context. In: Department of Museums and Antiquities, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. International workshop on flexible materials in Asian collections. Exchange of approaches to conservation, presentation and use. Kuala Lumpur: Department of Museums and Antiquities, 16-25.

EASTOP, D. and DEW, C. 2003. Secret agents: deliberately concealed garments as symbolic textiles. In: J. VUORI, ed. North American Textile Conservation Biannual Conference 2003: The Conservation of Flags and other Symbolic Textiles. Albany, USA, November 2003. USA: NATCC, 5-15.

MATSUMURA, M. EASTOP, D. and GILL, K. 2002. Monitoring emissions from cellulose nitrate and cellulose acetate costume accessories: an evaluation of pH indicator dyes on paper, cotton tape and cotton threads. The Conservator, 26, 32-42.

EASTOP, D. 2002. Research opportunities: The AHRB Research Centre for Textile Conservation and Textile Studies, 2002-2007. In: M. SCHOEFER-MASSON, ed. Preprints of the 4th Ehemaligentreffen der ABEGG-STIFTUNG, 1-2 November 2002. Riggisberg: Abegg-Stiftung, 4pp (unpaqinated).

EASTOP, D. 2002. Textiles Working Group. ICOM UK News, 63 (December), 21.

EASTOP, D. 2002. Conservation as a democratising practice: learning from Latin America. ICOM UK News, 63 (December), 22-24.

TAKAMI, M. and EASTOP, D. 2002. The conservation of a Korean painted silk banner, c.1800: Paint analysis and support via solvent-reactivated acrylic adhesive. In: R. VONTOBEL, ed. Preprints of the 13th Triennial Meeting of ICOM Committee for Conservation, Rio de Janeiro. London: ICOM, 747-754.

WINDSOR, D., HILLYER, L. and EASTOP, D. 2002. The role of pressure mounting in textile conservation: recent applications of U.S. techniques. In: R. VONTOBEL, ed. Preprints, ICOM Conservation Committee 13th Triennial Meeting, Rio de Janiero. London: ICOM, 755-760.

EASTOP, D. and DEW, C. 2002. Protective practices: documenting and raising awareness of garments in concealment caches. In: Situated Knowledges. Design History Society Conference 2002 Abstracts. Aberystwyth: University of Aberystwyth, 10.

EASTOP, D. 2001. Garments deliberately concealed in buildings. In: R. J. WALLIS and K. LYMER. A Permeability of Boundaries? New Approaches to the Archaeology of Art, Religion and Folklore. BAR (British Archaeological Reports) International Series 936. Oxford: John & Erica Hedges, 79-83.

LEWIS, J. and EASTOP, D. 2001. Mixtures of anionic and non-ionic surfactants for wet-cleaning historic Textiles: a preliminary evaluation with standard soiled wool and cotton test fabrics. The Conservator, 25, 73-89. ISHII, M. and EASTOP, D. 2001. “Lady and Cavalier in a Garden.” Bulletin of Joshibi University of Art and Design, 31, 65-76.

GILL, K. and EASTOP, D., eds. 2001. Upholstery Conservation: Principles and Practice. Oxford: Butterworth-Heinemann.

DOYAL, S. and EASTOP, D. 2001. William Burges’ mermaid chair c.1870: conserving both original materials and later adaptation. In: K. GILL and D. EASTOP, eds. Upholstery Conservation: Principles and Practice. Oxford: Butterworth-Heinemann, 44-50

TIMAR-BALAZSY, Á. and EASTOP, D. 2001. Materiais de armazenamento e exposição. [Portuguese translation of Chapter 20, Storage and display materials from: Á. TIMAR-BALAZSY and D. EASTOP, Chemical Principles of Textile Conservation]. In:M. MENDES, DA SILVEIRA, L., BEVILAQUA, Fand NUNES BAPTISTA, A.C.,eds.Conservação: conceitos e práticãs. Rio de Janeiro: Universidade Federal do Rio deJaneiro, 141-184.

EASTOP, D. 2000. Textiles as multiple and competing histories. In: M. M. BROOKS, ed. Textiles Revealed. Object Lessons in Historic Textiles and Costume Research.London: Archetype Publications, 17-28.