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"X-radiography of textiles, dress and related objects" is published by Elsevier/Butterworth-Heinemann in 2007 - Amsterdam, it has 336 pages and the language of the book is English.


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  • Title: ➤  X-radiography of textiles, dress and related objects
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  • Language: English
  • Number of Pages: 336
  • Publisher: Elsevier/Butterworth-Heinemann
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  • Publish Location: Amsterdam

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  • Pagination: xix, 336 p. :

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"X-radiography of textiles, dress and related objects" Table Of Contents:

  • 1- 1: Textile X-radiography
  • 2- Introduction / Sonia O'Connor and Mary M. Brooks
  • 3- Principles of X-radiography / Sonia O'Connor
  • 4- High definition X-radiography of textiles: methods and approaches / Sonia O'Connor
  • 5- Textile X-radiography and digital imaging / Sonia O'Connor and Jason Maher
  • 6- Image interpretation / Sonia O'Connor
  • 7- Assessing the risks of X-radiography to textiles / Sonia O'Connor with a contribution on DNA by Jason Maher
  • 8- Radiation safety / Graham Hart
  • 9- 2: Exploring the X-radiographic features of textile objects / Sonia O'Connor and Mary M. Brooks
  • 10- Materials
  • 11- Threads, fabrics and construction techniques
  • 12- Surface decoration
  • 13- Makers and making, degradation and repair
  • 14- 3: Case studies
  • 15- Introduction / Mary M. Brooks and Sonia O'Connor
  • 16- Evaluating X-radiography as a tool for examining upholstered furniture / Kathryn Gill
  • 17- The use of X-radiography in the Textile Conservation Laboratory, Opificio delle Pietro Dure, Florence: methodological, technical and research approaches towards a non-invasive investigative technique / Susanna Conti and Alfredo Aldrovandi
  • 18- The role of X-radiography in the documentation and investigation of an eighteenth century multi-layered stomacher / Gabriella Barbieri
  • 19- Hidden Structures: the use of X-radiography in the Fashion Gallery at Snibston discovery park, Leicestershire / Clare Bowyer
  • 20- X-radiography of a knitted silk stocking with metal thread embroidery / Sonia O'Connor, Mary M. Brooks and Josie Sheppard
  • 21- A chalice veil rediscovered / Sonia O'Connor and Mary M. Brooks
  • 22- The use of X-radiography in the analysis and conservation documentation of a set of seventeenth century hanging wall pockets / Mary M. Brooks and Sonia O'Connor
  • 23- 'In needle works there doth great knowledge rest': the contribution of X-radiography to the understanding of seventeenth century English embroideries from the Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archeology, Oxford / Mary M. Brooks and Sonia O'Connor
  • 24- X-radiography of dolls and toys / Mary M. Brooks, Sonia O'Connor and Josie Sheppard
  • 25- X-radiography of teddy bears and other textile artefacts at the Victoria & Albert Museum / Marion Kite
  • 26- X-radiography of patchwork and quilts / Mary M. Brooks, Sonia O'Connor and Josie Sheppard
  • 27- Revealing the layers: the X-radiography of eighteenth century shoes at Hampshire County Council Museums and Archives Service / Sarah Howard and Robert Holmes
  • 28- The contribution of X-radiography to the conservation and study of textile/leather composite archaeological footwear recovered from the Norwegian Arctic / Elizabeth E. Peacock
  • 29- Controlled lifting and X-radiography of gold threads from ancient archaeological textiles / Elizabeth Barham
  • 30- X-radiography of ethnographic objects at the Horniman Museum / Louis Bacon
  • 31- The use of X-radiography in the conservation treatment and reinterpretation of an incomplete musette / Sylvie François
  • 32- X-radiographic examination of a historic mannequin on display in Edinburgh, Castle, Scotland / David Starley and Fiona Cahill
  • 33- X-radiography of Rembrandt's paintings on canvas / Ernst van de Wetering Précis by Mary M. Brooks and Sonia O'Connor.

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Explores the potential of X-radiography as a tool for the characterization, condition assessment and study of ancient, historic, and contemporary textiles, and hence, to aid conservation decision making and curatorial studies.

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