By Kaitlyn Munro We recently had the pleasure of conserving and preparing a beautiful old stage costume for the Folger Shakespeare Library’s upcoming exhibit: America’s Shakespeare. A reproduction of an 18th c style suit, this costume strives to be as sumptuous and elegant as it’s inspirations. The mauve and maroon cut velvet maple leaf pattern, surely […]
Archives for April 2016
Puppet Masters: Conservation in Miniature
In the first partnership of its kind, I led the The Queen Sirikit Museum of Textiles in Bangkok and the Taiyuan Asian Puppet Museum in Taipei for a puppet textile conservation training workshop. In the lively one-week session, conservators Nuchada Piranprasankit and Yaowalak Bunnag, from the Queen Sirikit Museum of Textiles, and I trained staff […]
