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+                    Some Notes on my apprenticeship in Textile Conservation:
+Hands on !
+course followed at the Kunstakademie of Anderlecht, sectie ambachtskunsten.
+http://www.academieanderlecht.be/index.php?textiel
+teacher : http://jokevandermeersch.be/
+Joke has an impressive knowledge in chemistry, crafts, art history and insects. She tries with a lot of patience to transmit me the basic skills of a textile conservator. The skills needed in this course are very challenging and difficult to me : patience, concentration, assiduity.
+Something Joke says that I like very much : « Behandel elk stuk alsof het het meest waardevolle ter wereld is. »
+I still can’t separate the Gutterman thread into its 3 consitutive threads. It’s a kind of choregraphy with the fingers you have to master, I just can’ grasp it. We have to do this because when restauring a piece we have to use the finest thread possible, so that the intervention is as invisible as possible.
+I like the cleaning ritual of textile conservation :
+Conservators have to obsessionally clean their hands before manipulating the cloth pieces, but also regularly during the process. First year students have the tendency to forget this, so part of the teaching process of Joke is to repeat it all over again…
+In the beginning of the apprenticeship we learn :
+-the core (ethical) values of conservation through the little gestures of the practice, ‘richtlijnen bij het manipuleren’
+- how to make a ‘behandelingsrapport’ : identification form of the textile piece, description (from technique to art history background) // condition report every action that is executed on the piece of textile has to be thoroughly documented (through pictures, calques, draing, samples, formulas…) cf. ‘dagboek der werkzaamheden’
+- to make a support fabric and a protection fabric, to learn the most important sewing techniques in this regard
+Bibliography :
+« Textile Conservation: Advances in Practice », ed. By Frances Lennard and Patricia Ewer, 2010
+« Textile conservation and research: a documentation of the textile department on the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of the Abegg Foundation », by Flury-Lemberg, Mechthild, 1988
+« The textile conservator's manual » by Landi Sheila, Butterworths series in conservation and museology, 1985