Date
Saturday, 5 April 2025
Time
11:00 - 12:00 (1 hour)
Price
£5
Location
Edinburgh Printmakers
(Castle Mills, 1 Dundee St, Edinburgh, EH3 9FP)
This talk from professional textile conservator Isabella Rossi will explain how to care for the objects that you’ve spent dozens of hours knitting and crocheting. We’ll cover the ‘agents of deterioration’, the elements that turn your garments from masterpieces into rags. These include moths, holes from use, light fading, wash fastness, and unwanted felting. The talk will explain how these problems arise, how to address them, and how to prevent them in the future.
Rossi Conservation is a textile conservation studio based in Dunbar, Scotland run by conservator Isabella Rossi. She is a graduate of the Master of Philosophy Textile Conservation program at the University of Glasgow. She has worked with institutions such as the V&A Dundee, National Museums Scotland, Glasgow School of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Smithsonian National Museum of American History, and the Yale University Art Gallery. She also writes about textile conservation and history for the public and is a regular contributor to magazines such as PieceWork, Spin Off, and PLY.