C8910 Conservation of subjects made from organic materials II - course

Faculty of Science
Spring 2025
Extent and Intensity
0/5/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
In-person direct teaching
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Žaneta Kubingerová (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Dana Modráčková (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Gabriela Vyskočilová, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
doc. Mgr. Karel Novotný, Ph.D. (alternate examiner)
Guaranteed by
Mgr. Gabriela Vyskočilová, Ph.D.
Department of Chemistry – Chemistry Section – Faculty of Science
Supplier department: Department of Chemistry – Chemistry Section – Faculty of Science
Prerequisites
Knowledge of basic lectures and practical procedures related to the conservation of artifacts made of organic materials, especially paper, textile, and leather (courses C5980, C5985, or others with similar content).
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The main objectives of the course are to exercise more advanced methods and techniques from the field of conservation or restoration of artifacts made from textile materials, paper, and leather. The next part of the course is preventive conservation which covers manipulation, transport, stowing, installation, and adjustment of the artifacts.
Learning outcomes
The main objectives of the course are to exercise more advanced methods and techniques from the field of conservation, restoration, and preventive conservation of artifacts made from textile materials, paper, and leather.
Syllabus
  • Part A: Textiles
  • 1: Technology of clothing production – technology of processing and production of clothing in a historical context, cutting structures, decoration techniques, and materials. Other textile techniques - lace, embroidery, textile applications, sewing.
  • 2: Installation and interpretation of collection objects of a textile nature in exhibitions - principles of interpretation, used materials, installation aids, and environmental conditions in the exhibition.
  • 3: Preventive conservation – protection of collection items (packaging materials, marking of items, handling, transport, storage), environmental conditions for keeping cultural items.
  • 4: Conservation and restoration - textile-technological research - photographic documentation, technical drawing, methods and procedures for identification of textile materials, determination of finish and twist of threads, binding analysis of fabrics. Dyes - methods of determining the stability of dyes.
  • 5: Conservation and restoration - Textile cleaning - methods and procedures, dry cleaning, wet cleaning, chemical cleaning. Detergents (TPP – textile auxiliary means), adhesives, methods and procedures of consolidation of textile objects, dyeing auxiliary textiles.
  • Part B: Paper
  • 6. Paper cleavage.
  • 7. Large-area mounting of paper objects.
  • 8. Restoration of paper documents made on tracing paper.
  • 9. Utilization of fixation agents – their influence on soluble dyes.
  • 10. Additional colouring of paper suspension for topping-up
  • Part C: Leather
  • 11. General view into the composition of leather and hide materials (histology).
  • 12. Method used for artificial aging of hides and parchment.
  • 13. Solving and design of a model for complex treatment of historical hides.
  • 14: Conservation report elaboration.
Literature
    recommended literature
  • FLECKER, Lara. A Practical Guide to Costume Mountin. Taylor and Francis, 2015. ISBN 9781138132146
  • LENNARD, Frances, EWER, Patricia. Textile Conservation. Butterworth-Heinemann, 2010. ISBN 9380931581
  • Skripta PřF pro předměty C5980, C5985 a C8910
  • SELUCKÁ, Alena, Martin MRÁZEK, Ivo ŠTĚPÁNEK, Michal MAZÍK, Hana GROSSMANNOVÁ, Pavel JIRÁSEK, Pavel HOLMAN, Petr JAKUBEC, Jana FRICOVÁ, Zdeněk VÁCHA, Jan ČERVENÁK, Martin DVOŘÁK, Václav NĚMEC, Markéta DUŠKOVÁ, Igor FOGAŠ and Jiří BAČOVSKÝ. Metodika uchovávání předmětů kulturní povahy. Brno: Technické muzeum v Brně, 2018, 109 stran. ISBN 9788087896402. info
  • Conservation of leather and related materials. Edited by Marion Kite - Roy Thomson. First edition. London: Routledge, 2011, xxii, 340. ISBN 9780750648813. info
  • LANDI, Sheila. The textile conservator's manual. Second edition. London: Routledge, 2011, xvii, 340. ISBN 9780750638975. info
  • ĎUROVIČ, Michal. Restaurování a konzervování archiválií a knih. Vyd. 1. V Praze: Paseka, 2002, 517 s. ISBN 8071853836. info
  • TIMÁR-BALÁZSY, Ágnes and Dinah EASTOP. Chemical principles of textile conservation. Oxford: Butterworth-Heinemann, 1998, xx, 443. ISBN 0750626208. info
Teaching methods
laboratory practice
Assessment methods
course-unit credit after evaluation of submitted conservation reports
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2011 - only for the accreditation, Spring 2008, Spring 2009, Spring 2010, Spring 2011, Spring 2012, spring 2012 - acreditation, Spring 2013, Spring 2014, Spring 2015, Spring 2016, Spring 2017, spring 2018, Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Spring 2021, Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Spring 2024.
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