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We would like to inform you about "Call For Papers - 5th International Symposium on Azerbaijani Carpets".

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17-20 October 2017
Baku, Azerbaijan

Send them your abstract (only 500 words in english) until March 15, 2017 and be part of the symposium!

Please, see below for more information!

„Captured Jugurtha“ tapestry
Brussels, Belgium
ca. 1620
wool and silk; 253 x 200 cm
inv. no. 33 500

„Captured Jugurtha“ tapestry
Brussels, Belgium
ca. 1620
wool and silk; 253 x 200 cm
inv. no. 33 500

An inspection day concerning the tapestry restored in the workshop of the Tapestry Studio in Jindřichův Hradec took place on 24/05, 2016.
Expert supervision conducted by MDA restorer Ms Samohýlová, with the project´s chief curator Mgr Martina Lehmannová and assistant curator Mgr Veronika Mědílková, found the restoration work on the tapestry „Captured Jugurtha“ (Inv. No. 33,500) to have been completed, in correspondence with the restoration aims and the previously approved modifications. At the same time, restoration progress reports documenting the work done were examined.

„Captured Jugurtha“ tapestry
Brussels, Belgium
ca. 1620
wool and silk; 253 x 200 cm
inv. no. 33 500

We wish to inform you more about the project “Historical Tapestries and Textiles from the Collection of the Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague: Conservation and Presentation,” EHP-CZ06-OV-1-038-2014, which was supported by grant from Lichtenstein, Norway and by so-called the Norwegian Grants.

Altar screen

The three-panel folding screen was made of an embroidered fabric additionally fastened onto a wooden frame sometime during the second half of the 18th century. At its centre it features an embroidery depicting the microcosm surrounding a brook, with frogs, snakes and a newt upon pebbles, a butterfly and a dragonfly soaring over a bed of flowers. The depictions of plants in the central image and the bordure make up an embroidered herbarium. From time immemorial, plants had carried a host of hidden meanings. Knowledge of their names, particularly in Latin, provided clues to various arcane messages. The language of flowers was used as a secret means of communication between lovers. Its popularity mounted during the second half of the 18th century, to reach its peak in the course of the 19th century. At no time before or, for that matter, since has the knowledge of nature among the general public been quite so detailed as then. The screen´s border is made of guipure lace lined with red fabric.

Altar screen
Montage – central Europe
embroidered fabric part from the end of the 18th century, montage later
silk, cotton, wood, metal, h. 175 cm, w. 220 cm
inv. no. 62829

Tapestry Caesar Crossing the Rubicon: Iacta est alea
Brusel,workshop Le Clerc
c. 1680
wool, silk; h. 370 cm, w. 340 cm
Inv. no. 83150

An inspection and final approval day concerning the tapestries restored in the workshop of the Tapestry Studio in Jindřichův Hradec took place on 18/04, 2016.
Expert supervision conducted by MDA restorers Ms Samohýlová and Ms Kottová, with the project´s chief curator Mgr Martina Lehmannová and assistant curator Mgr Veronika Mědílková, found the restoration work on the tapestry Caesar Crossing the Rubicon (Inv. No. 83,150) to have been completed, in correspondence with the restoration aims and the previously approved modifications. At the same time, restoration progress reports documenting the work done were examined.
In the case of the tapestry Jugurtha in Captivity (Inv. No. 33,500), the work was found to be progressing in accord with the restoration goal, and the restorer´s proposal for the repair of the item´s filling was approved, including approval of submitted painterly designs of the repaired section´s palette and composition; and approval, upon demonstration, of the technical ex*****on of the restoration by sewing. Several larger-scale painted fillings will be restored by resewing, for the sake of optical homogeneity (most notably, a section behind the back of a child figure in centre foreground; the right upper edge; and the tip of a shoe on the topmost step of a staircase on the left).

Dalmatic, Spain (?), 17th century
Silk, metal thread; 120 x 126 cm
inv. no. 3153

In late November of last year restoration work began on further historical liturgical textiles from the collection of the Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague, included in the Norwegian Funds Project on Historical Tapestries and Textiles from the Collection of the Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague – Conservation and Presentation, EHP-CZ06-OV-1-038-2014.
On 07/04, 2016, another inspection day, focused on the progress of restoration work on three collection items (two 17th-century dalmatics from Bohemia, and a 19th-century purple Infant Jesus robe from Bohemia), took place in the workshop of their restorer, Ms Alena Prajzlerová, in Roztoky near Prague.
Expert supervision conducted by MDA restorers Ms Samohýlová and Ms Kottová, with chief project curator Ms Lehmannová, found the progress of work to be in accord with the restoration goals.
Beyond that, the participants discussed and defined the further procedures to be carried out, based on new findings.
In the case of the dalmatic (Inv. No. 64,932), the restoration work had been completed, in accord with the restoration aim and the complementary modifications agreed upon subsequently (cf. previous records).
In the case of the dalmatic (Inv. No. 3,153), 75 percent of the restoration work has by now been completed. The work is progressing in accord with the restoration aim and the complementary modifications agreed upon subsequently (cf. previous records).
In the case of the purple robe for the Infant Jesus (Acq. No. 130/2013), it was found that 70 percent of the restoration work had been completed (the progress of work being in accord with the restoration aim and the previous records). Consultations were engaged in by the parties involved concerning the extent of the overlaying of the vest by silk crepeline. It was further decided to perform the measuring of pH of the support canvas.
Furthermore, three chasubles were subjected to detailed inspection, and it was decided to complement the original restoration plan by the following three procedures making possible the definitive and flawless completion of the restoration process:
In the case of the chasuble (Inv. No. 5,444), an impaired braid will be skeleton-lined with a silk crepeline strip. Holes and missing parts of the middle sections of the vestment´s front and back sides will receive silk crepeline skeleton lining; and the reinforcing canvas will be skeleton-lined.
In the case of the chasuble (Inv. No. 75,324), it was decided to underlay the lining around the neckline by silk crepeline, and a partial dismantling of the original stitching was authorized. Further, it was agreed to detach a partly torn section of lace around the neckline, for separate cleaning and aligning, and subsequent reattachment.
In the case of the chasuble with accessories (Inv. Nos 87,848 – 87,851), it was newly decided to underlay holes in the lining by silk crepeline, involving partial dismantling of the rim.