HECOL476 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Bog, Conservation And Restoration Of Textiles, Taklamakan Desert
14 Sep 2016
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First, consider what causes degradation and then how these degrading faces may be excluded or minimized in burial environment. If degrading faces are absent, then preservation can occur. Are everywhere and are the primary forces decomposing buried textiles. Require correct temperature, ph, moisture/rh ideal for growth. Treated/untreated fabric being unearthed after 15 days showing how rapidly microorganisms decompose textiles and other organic materials. Conditions for preservation = dry, wet, dark, frozen, metal. Late neolithic site of domuztepe in south eastern turkey ~5800-5400 bc. Waterlogged (anaerobic/anoxic conditions) wet - oxygen excluded (acidic/alkaline) Frozen (low temperature restricts microbial and chemical process) Dry, often salt laden environment of the desert has minimal bacterial activity and is ideal fro preservation of all types of textile materials. Egypt probably the most familiar desert with preserved textiles. Iron age salt mines in austria 16th-4th c bc. Remarkable preservation of organic materials - many textiles.
