Thursday, November 6, 2003
Location: New York State Museum
- Vibrant Dancers: Egungun Costumes from Southwestern Nigeria. Dorothy Stites Alig
- Secret Agents: Deliberately Concealed Garments as Symbolic Textiles. Dinah Eastop and Charlotte Dew
- Religious Symbolic Textiles in Himalayan Monasteries: Prayer Flags, Banners and Thangkas. Ann Shaftel
- Clear as Mud: How Cultural Significance Determines Preservation Choices. Sarah Clayton, Wendy Dodd, Victoria Gill and Bridie Kirkpatrick
- Preservation of Stripes, Stars and Swastikas. Lizou Fenyvesi
- Documenting and Preserving Woven and Constructed Materials on a Collection of Early Nineteenth Century Native North American Objects. T. Rose Holdcraft
- Amos Bad Heart Bull’s Painted Textile: A Document of Cultures and Conflicts. Virginia Jarvis Whelan
Friday, November 7, 2003
- "For Which It Stands": American Patriotism in Material Culture. Marilyn Zoidis
- Flag Conservation Then and Now. Deborah Lee Trupin
The following four papers were presented as a panel discussion:
- Looking at our History, Listening to Our Client. Harold F. Mailand
- What so Proudly We Hailed: One Museum’s Effort to Conserve Historic Flags. Barbara L. Rowe
- Saving Maine’s Colours: Strategies in Flag Conservation & Exhibition at the Maine State Museum. Gwen Spicer, Laureen LaBar, Susan Adler, Marion Scharoun and Dona Smith
- Do You Know Where You Are? Silk Flank Markers from the Civil War. Sarah C. Stevens
- MFAH Texas Flags: 1836-1945 Flags as Fine Art? Fonda Ghiardi Thomsen
- What If You Can’t Afford To Make a Mistake: Developing an Experimental Protocol for the Treatment of the Star-Spangled Banner. Fenella G. France and Suzanne Thomassen-Krauss
- Different Restoration Treatments on 19th Century Silk Banners and Flags. Fanny Espinoza
- United We Stand! The Conservation of Trade Union Banners. Frances Lennard and Vivian Lochhead
- "Go Thou and Do Likewise"? The Conservation of the Ebrington Friendly Society Banner. Ann French and Nicola Gentle
Saturday, November 8, 2003
- Moving Pictures: Adapting Painting Conservation Techniques to the Treatment of Painted Textiles. Nancy R. Pollak
- The Conservation of Savonarola’s Banner. Mary Westerman Bulgarella and Susanna Conti
- Avendale for Reformation: Conservation of a 17th Century Covenanting Banner. Lynn McClean and Elizabeth-Anne Haldane
- The Effectiveness of Adhesive Support Treatments for Flags and Banners: Condition of Treated Artifacts in Canada and the UK.Irene F. Karsten and Nancy Kerr
- Facing the Future: The Use of Cyclododecane and Re-Moistenable Tissue Paper in the Conservation of a Painted Silk Flag.Joanne Hackett and Beth Szuhay