Upholstery Conservation: Principles and Practice

Kathryn GillKathryn (Kate) Gill is Senior Conservator and Lecturer at the Textile Conservation Centre, University of Southampton. She specialises in the conservation of textiles and upholstery; she also teaches, and supervises postgraduate projects. She has worked on both sides of the Atlantic and has played a key role in developing upholstery conservation at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York and in the UK. Her aim has been to enhance the standard of upholstery conservation and documentation, while maintaining craft knowledge and skills. She has published widely, and is co-author (with Sherry Doyal) of the upholstery sections in Conservation of Furniture, edited by Nick Umney (forthcoming). She recently led the Upholstery Conservation Forum and Course at West Dean, Sussex. AMUKIC.
Dinah EastopDinah Eastop is Senior Lecturer at the Textile Conservation Centre, University of Southampton. She had in-service training in textile conservation with Dr Karen Finch, OBE, FIIC and with Dr Mechtild Flury-Lemberg at the Abegg-Stiftung, Switzerland. She has worked at the Textile Conservation Centre since 1976 as Conservator, Tutor and as Director from 1988 to 1991. She was Assistant Coordinator of the Textiles Working Group of ICOM-CC, 1990-3 and 1996-9, and was elected a Fellow of IIC in 1993. She was an appointed member of the Expert Panel set up by the Museums and Galleries Commission (UK) for Standards in the Museum Care of Costume and Textiles, 1995-8. She is active in developing the scholarly foundations of textile conservation. She is co-author with Dr Agnes Timar-Balazsy of Chemical Principles of Textile Conservation, 1998 and is Deputy Editor of UKIC's journal Tioe Conservator. Her current interests are in material culture, expanding the social sciences base of textile conservation, and promoting practice-based research. AMUKIC