Historic Textiles, Papers, and Polymers in Museums

Content: Machine generated contents note: Textiles and Papers in Museums 1. Historic Textiles and Paper 2 -- Jeanette M. Cardamone 2. The Aging, Degradation, and Conservation of Historic Materials -- Made from Cellulosic Fibers 8 -- Jeanette M. Cardamone 3. Chemical and Physical Changes in Naturally and Accelerated -- Aged Cellulose 23 -- David Erhardt, Charles S. Tumosa, and Marion F. Mecklenburg 4. FTIR Study of Dyed and Undyed Cotton Fibers Recovered -- from a Marine Environment 38 -- Runying Chen and Kathryn Jakes 5. Characterization of Chemical and Physical Microstructure -- of Historic Fibers through Microchemical Reaction 55 -- Runying Chen and Kathryn A. Jakes 6. Degradation and Color Fading of Cotton Fabrics Dyed with -- Natural Dyes and Mordants74 -- N. Kohara, C. Sano, H. Ikuno, Y. Magoshi, M.A. Becker, -- M. Yatagai, and M. Saito 7. Degradation and Color Fading of Silk Fabrics Dyed with -- Natural Dyes and Mordants 86 -- Mamiko Yatagai, Yoshiko Magoshi, Mary A. Becker, Chie Sano, -- Harumi Ikuno, Natsuko Kohara, and Masako Saito -- 8. Measuring Silk Deterioration by High-Performance -- Size-Exclusion Chromatography, Viscometry, and -- Electrophoresis-- Season Tse and Anne-Laurence Dupont 9. The Aging of Wool Fibers -- Ian L. Weatherall Polymers in Museums 10. Polymers in Museums -- Mary T. Baker 11. The Physical Properties of Photographic Film Polymers -- Subjected to Cold Storage Environments -- Charles S. Tumosa, Marion F. Mecklenburg, and -- Mark H. McCormick-Goodhart 12. Probing the Factors That Control Degradation in Museum -- Collections of Cellulose Acetate Artefacts -- Jane Ballany, David Littlejohn, Richard A. Pethrick, and -- Anita Quye 13. Spectroscopic Investigation of the Degradation of Vulcanized -- Natural Rubber Museum Artifacts -- Sandra A. Connors, Alison Murray, Ralph M. Paroli, -- Ana H. Delgado, and Jayne D. Irwin 14. Pyroxyline Paintings by Siqueiros: Visual and Analytical -- Examination of His Painting Techniques -- Celina Contreras de Berenfeld, Alison Murray, Kate Helwig, -- and Barbara Keyser 15. Laser Surface Profilometry: A Novel Technique for the -- Examination of Polymer Surfaces -- S.A. Fairbrass and D.R. Williams Author Index Subject Index.