How old silk stabilize?
Silk is just around the disintegration of embroidery that is historic and should be saved. It's too late to stabilization with the cloth, is there some kind of resin, or should I just cut out the embroidered pieces and mount in neutral pH media?
If you have a textile museum near (or at least at home) to contact them for advice. They have brand names for what is available in your country and knowledge to know what to do, or you can send people who do. And we know that museums and restorers have experience working with silk. Do not cut until sure there are no other ways to save, because you can never put back together. I have talked it over with a friend who does restorations textiles, mentions that the type of glue used (If any), will have a big impact. He also mentioned that we must have a textile industry expert with a good reputation, which in contact with a large, well known the museum with a textile department is probably the best. That price will be high, referred to a starting rate of several hundred pounds for an estimated volume of work required, all at special prices. There are websites and forums for people who work (hobby and professional), with silks, these are better to ask here where most people lack knowledge and the few with any knowledge is most likely that no expert.
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Reviving Petit Point – Puja Bhakoo
An avid embroiderer since the age of thirteen, Puja Bhakoo, an ad person by profession, has revived the art of Petit Point embroidery in India, lending it a whole new ethnic dimension.
Drawing inspiration from paintings by world famous Indian artists , Puja Bhakoo sketches, paints and then embroiders human figures on canvas using wool. Earthy hues are ambitiously incorporated in most compositions. The figures’ solemn expressions and the compositions’ bold lines give her creations a hauntingly realistic look with a three dimensional quality that is far easier to achieve in paintings than it is in petit point. The degree to which the artist is able to create an illusion of depth, reflects her richness of experience and an innate understanding of the medium.
Owing to the intricacy of the designs and the fact that there is no trained help available (unlike standard hand embroideries), Puja Bhakoo creates one piece in 3-12 months, depending on the size of the work. Ofcourse the end product is one of its kind…a labour of love and painstaking effort, that is impossible to duplicate since there are no graphs or stencils.
While this lends an aura of exclusivity to each creation, it also makes the supply curve, vertical. This in turn makeseach piece, a rare acquisition.
Sizes of framed panels vary from 1ft x1ft to 4ft x 6ft.
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Petit Point : A Brief History.
Petit Point is a form of needle point embroidery that closely resembles a tapestry on completion. Its history can be traced back to the 16th Century, although it reached its most refined and sophisticated expression in Europe from the late Middle Ages through the 18th century.
A very expensive art form, Petit Point embroideries came to be closely connected with the ruling classes and the clergy of yore.
Historical textiles have often been the result of collaborative relationships between designers (trained as painters), weavers, embroiderers and sculptors. From the 16th Century on, leading artists like Raphael, Rubens, Boucher and Goya provided weavers with cartoons for single tapestries or complete sets.are to locate a needle point sample that reflects laborious workmanship.
…And now
As with all applied arts, increased mechanization led to slipping standards, inferior training and workmanship and a paucity of visual ideas.
In this age of instant gratification and perhaps due to shrinking attention spans, it has become extremely rare to locate a needle point sample that reflects laborious workmanship.
The Indian Scenario
Over the years, Cross Stitch, Needle Point and Petit Point compositions got over-simplified and reduced to painted canvas floated in India by Madura Coats. These canvases carry simple floral motifs, the occasional horse or sceneries, etc.
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