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Examination of Metal Threads From Some Xv/Xvi Century Italian Textiles by Scanning Electron Microscopy-Energy Dispersive X-Ray Spectrometry

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2011

D. Montegut ,
C. Adelson ,
R.J. Koestler  and
N. Indictor
D. Montegut
Affiliation:
Conservation Center, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, New York City, 10021
C. Adelson
Affiliation:
Conservation Center, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, New York City, 10021
R.J. Koestler
Affiliation:
Metropolitan Museum of Art, Objects Conservation Dept., New York City, 10028
N. Indictor
Affiliation:
Brooklyn College, CUNY and the Grad. Prog., Chemistry Dept., Brooklyn, NY, 11210
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Abstract

Scanning electron microscopy and energy dispersive x-ray spectrometry (SEM-EDS) has been employed along with the light microscope to describe some metal threads taken from some late Medieval and Renaissance textiles attributed to Italy in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Comparisons are made within the group studied and to those descriptions of metal threads found in recent literature. The results are discussed in terms of geographic and historic markers of the metal thread technology employed.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 267: Symposium J – Materials Issues in Art and Archaeology III , 1992 , 309
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1992

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