Emerging Conservation Professional
Textile Conservation Internship
University of Delaware
Newark, DE
Under the direction of Winterthur's Textile Conservator, Laura Mina, I participated in the University of Delaware's Textile Conservation Internship class in the spring of 2018. During this internship, each student was responsible for the treatment of a child's white dress from the late 19th to early 20th centuries. This project included the mechanical and wet cleaning of the dresses, as well as the preparation of a condition and treatment report documenting our work, and the creation of archival padded hangers for the preservation of the dresses.
Some of my projects included:
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Attending lectures on textile history, manufacture, conservation, exhibition & display, and more.
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Designed and completed a wet cleaning treatment of a child's white early 20th-century dress.
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Prepared a condition and treatment report.
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Created a padded-board mount for a sewing sampler.
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Made an archival padded hanger.
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Generated an annotated bibliography on the field of textile conservation.
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Learned multiple fiber-crafting methods.
The skills I learned and improved upon in this internship include:
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Mechanical cleaning of a historic costume
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Wet cleaning of a historic costume
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Preparing a condition report
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Preparing a treatment report
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Photographic documentation skills
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Fiber microscopy & identification
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Crocheting
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Card-weaving
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Sewing
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Mount-making
