MMC
@mmsea.bsky.social
Enthusiastic grump. Textile conservator. Muppet. 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️
This past week I examined cobweb fibers used as a paintings substrate. High magnification, and hyperspectral imaging techniques with variable lighting direction were super helpful to show certain features and properties of the web of fibers. #TextileConservation #ArtConservation
March 8, 2025 at 1:42 PM
This past week I examined cobweb fibers used as a paintings substrate. High magnification, and hyperspectral imaging techniques with variable lighting direction were super helpful to show certain features and properties of the web of fibers. #TextileConservation #ArtConservation
Hi I’m catatonically anxious but at least I’m still decent at fiddling with little threads. Slowly replacing the missing decorative binding threads by surrealist artist Mary Reynolds. Almost done! #TextileConservation #ArtConservation
March 5, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Hi I’m catatonically anxious but at least I’m still decent at fiddling with little threads. Slowly replacing the missing decorative binding threads by surrealist artist Mary Reynolds. Almost done! #TextileConservation #ArtConservation
Me and Katrina stretching a 10’ x 10’ ModCon assemblage of painted canvas, knit wool, and wooden bars. #ArtConservation #TextileConservation #ModernAndContemporaryArt
February 18, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Me and Katrina stretching a 10’ x 10’ ModCon assemblage of painted canvas, knit wool, and wooden bars. #ArtConservation #TextileConservation #ModernAndContemporaryArt
Look at this adorable winter gnome! It’s Erin!
February 14, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Look at this adorable winter gnome! It’s Erin!
Looking at cobweb samples under the microscope. It was used as a substrate for a painting in the Northwestern University library special collections. The fibers are SO narrow. #ArtConservation
February 12, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Looking at cobweb samples under the microscope. It was used as a substrate for a painting in the Northwestern University library special collections. The fibers are SO narrow. #ArtConservation
I’m a floor person through and through. It’s my signature party move, third in line after not going at all, and leaving without saying goodbye. Bonus Edie on the floor with me.
February 10, 2025 at 1:25 AM
I’m a floor person through and through. It’s my signature party move, third in line after not going at all, and leaving without saying goodbye. Bonus Edie on the floor with me.
Sometimes my job is especially joyful and silly: many examples of fake lion’s mane mushrooms, made by three conservation colleagues and myself. For a multimedia object installation in the museum that originally used live rotting mushrooms on furniture, can you spot the real one! #ArtConservation
February 6, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Sometimes my job is especially joyful and silly: many examples of fake lion’s mane mushrooms, made by three conservation colleagues and myself. For a multimedia object installation in the museum that originally used live rotting mushrooms on furniture, can you spot the real one! #ArtConservation
Disassociating from the world while stitching this brittle little charmer. #TextileConservation
February 5, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Disassociating from the world while stitching this brittle little charmer. #TextileConservation
I’m back to thinking about the etchings printed on highly reflective synthetic fibers by Barbara Rossi. Many of them she also stitched, pieced, quilted, embroidered or beaded. Forever fascinated by her style and methods. #TextileConservation #ArtConservation
February 4, 2025 at 3:37 AM
I’m back to thinking about the etchings printed on highly reflective synthetic fibers by Barbara Rossi. Many of them she also stitched, pieced, quilted, embroidered or beaded. Forever fascinated by her style and methods. #TextileConservation #ArtConservation
😮 doesn’t even cover it.
February 1, 2025 at 10:16 PM
😮 doesn’t even cover it.
So What by Judy Ledgerwood, part of my exploration into Chicago artists now that I live here. A pastel grid to interrupt the drumbeat of terror in the world.
February 1, 2025 at 4:07 AM
So What by Judy Ledgerwood, part of my exploration into Chicago artists now that I live here. A pastel grid to interrupt the drumbeat of terror in the world.
Thomas, looking like a cross between a horizontal Bernini and a relic of Pompei, while measuring the underside of a mount. #TextileConservation
January 31, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Thomas, looking like a cross between a horizontal Bernini and a relic of Pompei, while measuring the underside of a mount. #TextileConservation
I love this tiny painted and gilded tiger-legged man, from Tamil Nadu, 19thC.
January 30, 2025 at 4:39 PM
I love this tiny painted and gilded tiger-legged man, from Tamil Nadu, 19thC.
Look at this is amazing fake binding with deteriorated decorative threads that my coworker made as a mock up to perfect a treatment! Today I helped them spin and ply some custom dyed yarn to match the original, and we tested adhesives. #TextileConservation
January 30, 2025 at 3:41 AM
Look at this is amazing fake binding with deteriorated decorative threads that my coworker made as a mock up to perfect a treatment! Today I helped them spin and ply some custom dyed yarn to match the original, and we tested adhesives. #TextileConservation
Seeing what kind of haywire data I get trying to get a microfade graph from a chenille silk thread. #TextileConservation
January 28, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Seeing what kind of haywire data I get trying to get a microfade graph from a chenille silk thread. #TextileConservation
Pardon the wacky angle but this was fun to look at under UV. A multiple plate matrix print on silk satin textile with metal thread and colored floss silk from 1746. #TextileConservation
January 27, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Pardon the wacky angle but this was fun to look at under UV. A multiple plate matrix print on silk satin textile with metal thread and colored floss silk from 1746. #TextileConservation
Beautiful soft pack with @labruja-espino.bsky.social to ship this wooly baby off on exhibit. #TextileConservation
January 26, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Beautiful soft pack with @labruja-espino.bsky.social to ship this wooly baby off on exhibit. #TextileConservation
Department visit to the Northwestern science labs with the scientists that we collaborate with on research questions about cultural heritage. We saw so many cool huge machines and also heard about their other projects with other museums and collections. #ArtConservation #ConservationScience
January 24, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Department visit to the Northwestern science labs with the scientists that we collaborate with on research questions about cultural heritage. We saw so many cool huge machines and also heard about their other projects with other museums and collections. #ArtConservation #ConservationScience
Dyeing Japanese tissue and overdyeing cotton threads for a treatment of a thready textiley Mary Reynolds binding with the book conservation dept. #TextileConservation #ArtConservation
January 23, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Dyeing Japanese tissue and overdyeing cotton threads for a treatment of a thready textiley Mary Reynolds binding with the book conservation dept. #TextileConservation #ArtConservation
