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Lilia Prier Tisdall

Textile Conservation Display Specialist, Textile Conservation

Textile Conservation Display Specialist currently working on Undressed: A Brief History of Underwear

Caring for our collections

Ocean Liners: Creating Life on Board

Ocean Liners: Speed and Style installation: ‘The Pool’

Caring for our collections

Corset mounting for Undressed: the bones of the matter

Woven corset, Charles Bayer, Britain, London, 1879-85. Linen, silk and whalebone (baleen), V&A: T.114&A-1938.

Conservation

The Future of Fashion in Museums: Conference at the Rijksmuseum

The Textile Conservation Costume Mounting team recently downed needles and thread to attend a two day conference at the Rijksmuseum titled Fashion in Museums: Past, Present &...

Conservation

Riveting Rivets

A good blog should be a riveting read, but this is a blog about riveting… Over the last week this fanciful tool has become a trusted friend as I face the challenge of...

Conservation

Too Petite for Petite: Mounting a 19th Century Corset for Undressed

Costume mounting is the topsy-turvy task of making a mannequin fit a particular object, a job that can often make you feel more like plastic surgeon than a museum employee, as...