Textile Cultural Relics Repair "Seamless"

"The new flag of the old flag, the Museum of textiles preservation and restoration exhibition of Shanghai City History Museum" was held at the China Silk Museum recently, and 18 pieces of textile relics after restoration were unveiled for the first time.

Zhang Lan, curator of the Shanghai History Museum, said that textile relics were an important category in the collection of the Shanghai history museum. The banner of clothing and social organizations in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China was particularly valuable.

At the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, the flag of the Shanghai book business group was being decorated with red hexagonal decoration, with six characters in each corner decorated with "Shanghai book business group".

The Dragon banner of the Shanghai book business group is decorated with blue dragon dragons. The dragon head is high, and the dragon head is a red sun, which concentrates the silhouette of modern Shanghai's commercial development.

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In August 2012, the Shanghai Museum of history commissioned the Chinese silk museum to deal with these diseases.

Health evaluation is carried out, and protection and restoration are carried out.

Up to now,

The repair of 26 textiles has been completed, and 18 pieces are selected to form the "old flag new banner" restoration achievement exhibition.

Among them, the clear stone Satin colored multicolored dragon dress is the most important dress in the Qing Dynasty.

This dress is made of stone blue satin. The front, side, hem and cuffs of the dress are embroidered with gold pieces. They are embroidered all over the body. The red silk satin multicolored dragon dragon pattern is used for the brocade, and the front and back shoulders and shoulders are embroidered with eight gold boats, white Satin sleeves and embroidered butterfly patterns.

The exhibition also shows the complete procedure of preservation and restoration of cultural relics from the professional perspective of cultural relics restoration.

Wang Shujuan, the repair technician, said that the longest repair exhibit took 4 months.

26 textiles must be examined first, and the elements of pollutants are detected by X ray fluorescence spectrometer.

For example, in the Guangxu period, the pollutants were mainly organic matter stains.

Three dimensional video microscope was used to observe the fabric structure. At the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, the warp density of the fabric was 120-150 centimeters / centimeters, and the density of the weft was 40 centimeters.

Biological microscope to observe the longitudinal and cross section of the fiber identification of different shapes, the color of a garment can reach more than 10 species, including natural dyes such as Flos Sophorae, safflower, indigo, and synthetic dyes such as acid red, malachite green and methyl blue.

After understanding the structure, technicians decontamination targeted, the same proportion of materials for repair.

Wang Shujuan said that the repair of clothes should be seamless and repair should focus on strengthening and prolonging the life of cultural relics. "Some cultural relics must first immerse in silk protein solution and solidify fragile fibers."

Zhang Lan said that in March next year, the exhibition of the China Silk Museum will be held from Hangzhou to Shanghai as soon as possible.