{"id":12556,"date":"2015-05-26T10:04:25","date_gmt":"2015-05-26T15:04:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conservators-converse.org\/?p=12556"},"modified":"2015-05-26T10:04:25","modified_gmt":"2015-05-26T15:04:25","slug":"43rd-annual-meeting-textile-specialty-group-session-may-15-tip-session-on-mount-making-materials-and-methods-for-exhibition-and-display-by-robin-hanson-shelly-uhlir-laura-mina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/2015\/05\/26\/43rd-annual-meeting-textile-specialty-group-session-may-15-tip-session-on-mount-making-materials-and-methods-for-exhibition-and-display-by-robin-hanson-shelly-uhlir-laura-mina\/","title":{"rendered":"43rd Annual Meeting \u2013 Textile Specialty Group Session, May 15, \u201cTip Session on Mount Making: Materials and Methods for Exhibition and Display by Robin Hanson, Shelly Uhlir, Laura Mina, Denise Krieger Migdail, and Joy Gardiner\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Tip Session was the final presentation of the Textile Specialty Group. If you missed this session, you missed scads, mountains, and heaps of useful mounting information from six knowledgeable presenters. They shared techniques, and sources for materials and mounting supplies. The presentations were so rich with information, I could not hope to scratch the surface in this post.
\nThe first presenter was Robin Hanson, Associate Conservator of Textiles, with the Cleveland Museum of Art. Her presentation was titled \u201cModular Mount for pre-Columbian Tunics.\u201d The subject was a display method she developed along with mount makers Carlo Maggiora and Philip Brutz. This tube mount for support and display of multiple pre-Columbian tunics, for a traveling exhibition, had custom fabricated end caps of cylindrical aluminum rod, and custom padded inserts made for each tunic. It is versatile. Variations of the mount were made for inclined wall mounts and for display in the round. The mount reduces handling of the fragile tunics, and can remain in the garment for shipping and in storage. We are in luck, because her poster of the technique will be posted.
\nShelly Uhlir is an Exhibits Specialist and Mount Maker at the National Museum of the American Indian. Her presentation, \u201cJoints and Connections: Attempts at Locking Motion,\u201d was divided into three categories for the creation of arm to torso connections: pinned, keyed, and magnetic. Shelly wanted us to keep in mind that shoulder joints are best when they are easy to find and release. Shelly proposed the idea of a collaborative arm connection \/ mannequin joint wiki-page. I hope that her clever solutions will be posted soon.
\nLaura Mina, Associate Conservator from the Costume Institute of The Metropolitan Museum of Art presented \u201cHats for Egg Heads.\u201d\u00a0 Laura shared how to support and secure hats while they are perched on highly polished, featureless egg-shaped mounts. She used felt, and double stick tape as well as small constructed forms of Volara, polyester batting, twill tape, and silk. They were a clean and simple solution for display.
\nSusan Heald, Textile Conservator at the National Museum of the American Indian, presented \u201cAdjustable Angle, reusable slant boards for mounting hides and textiles with magnets.\u201d Susan explained the evolution of the slant boards for hides and textiles used at NMAI. She described how they went from being custom cut to the shape of a hide, to light weight reusable aluminum honeycomb boards with larger handling margins. She shared their construction, materials used, types and size of magnet, sleeve options for the back of textiles, and her choice of sueded polyester to cover magnets used to secure hides to the slant boards.
\nDenise Krieger Migdail, Textile Conservator at the Asian Art Museum presented\u00a0 \u201cA new 3M: Minimal Magnet Mounts.\u201d\u00a0 Denise pointed out that magnetic mounts can be beautiful, functional, and of infinite variety. Her talk was packed with information about the ways she has used magnets for mounts. She had two categories: strip fasteners with magnets embedded into various types of board to spread the pressure evenly along the length of an object; and as point fasteners when magnets are used singly. She shared storage and separation techniques, such as keeping the magnets interleaved with twill tape, and using a stronger magnet as an aid for separation.
\nOur last speaker was Joy Gardiner, Assistant Director of Conservation, at the Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library.\u00a0Her presentation was titled\u00a0\u201cTo Avoid Further Piercings: The Mounting of a 1795 Sampler with Original Paper Backing via a Paper Conservation Hinging Method.\u201d\u00a0 The technique that Joy adapted to keep the backing intact was found in\u00a0the realm of paper conservation\u00a0in\u00a0the article by\u00a0Hugh Phibbs, \u201cRecent Developments in Works on Paper\u201d\u00a0published in The Book and Paper Group Annual, <\/em>Volume 24, 2005. Japanese tissue paper hinges were attached to the sampler backing. The hinges were then passed through slits in a four-ply board, and then adhered to the back of that board without disturbing (or piercing) the sampler or the backing.
\nThe session finished with Q & A followed by time with the speakers, and their examples and handouts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Tip Session was the final presentation of the Textile Specialty Group. If you missed this session, you missed scads, mountains, and heaps of useful mounting information from six knowledgeable presenters. They shared techniques, and sources for materials and mounting supplies. The presentations were so rich with information, I could not hope to scratch the … Continue reading “43rd Annual Meeting \u2013 Textile Specialty Group Session, May 15, \u201cTip Session on Mount Making: Materials and Methods for Exhibition and Display by Robin Hanson, Shelly Uhlir, Laura Mina, Denise Krieger Migdail, and Joy Gardiner\u201d”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":235,"featured_media":12312,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,15,16,17],"tags":[75],"class_list":["post-12556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-annual-meeting","category-specialties","category-specialty-sessions","category-textiles","tag-aics-43rd-annual-meeting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/235"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12556\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}