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Treatment; 09 Dec 1996; Repair wool with patches where weak.; Organics

Reason: Permanent Exhibition
Description: The band was strengthened by a support fabric applied to the back of the band and extended to cover the borders on the front as well - in order to protect split edges. The support fabric used was a silk crepeline fabric, dyed using Ciba Geigy Lanaset protein dyes to a colour matching the brown cotton fabric, and stitched in place using silk monofilament thread. By pre-coating the support fabric very lightly with 2% w/v Klucel G (hydroxypropyl cellulose) adhesive in distilled water which made it much easier to handle during stitching. The adhesive was not used to attach the support fabric to the object. This treatment gave greater structural integrity to the band, but did not visually infill the areas of loss in the red wool textile.
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