Quilts\, samplers\, wedding dresses\, line n tablecloths and other textiles are precious heirlooms passed down throug h generations\, often carefully stored in boxes or plastic bags. Caring fo r your grandfather&rsquo\;s baby clothes or your great-grandmother&rsquo\; s sampler can be a challenge. There are so many questions to consider: sho uld you wash an old quilt? What about dry cleaning? What&rsquo\;s the best way to store a wedding dress? Can all the spots come out of the tableclot h or should you just live with it? And when should you call in a professio nal textile conservator? This program will combine a focused powerpoint pr esentation with demonstrations on a few simple preservation techniques and time to answer questions. The audience is invited to bring along textiles \, descriptions and/or photos of their items to help answer questions.
\nGuest speaker: Susan J. Jerome is Collections Manager at the Universi ty of Rhode Island Historic Textile and Costume Collection.
\nThe So merset County Library System of New Jersey Common Heritage initiative has been made possible in part by a major grant from the National Endowment fo r the Humanities: Exploring the human endeavor. Any views\, findings\, con clusions\, or recommendations expressed in these Library programs do not n ecessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.\n
Will you need a special accommodation (including food allergy if ap plicable to the program)? If so\, please contact the library and provide a t least two weeks notice prior to the event date and the library will make every effort to honor all requests. Thereafter\, requests will still be c onsidered and may have less of a chance of being honored.
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