Conservation Workshop: Caring for Quilts
- Cost
- $30 | Registration required
Tickets include the cost of materials provided during the workshop. Tickets are available beginning May 20. - Event Location
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, McMillan Education Center
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Join textile conservator Julia Brennan in a gallery talk about her efforts to conserve quilts featured in SAAM’s Pattern and Paradox: The Quilts of Amish Women exhibition before attending a hands-on workshop to learn about quilt conservation, repair and stabilization methods, proper storage, and handling techniques for heirloom textiles.
Attendees will receive a kit to practice their stitching and stabilization skills and sample housing materials as participants cannot bring their own quilts to the workshop.
Tickets are $30 and include the cost of materials provided during the workshop. Tickets are available beginning May 20.
This conservation workshop will be repeated on Saturday, August 10; please register for either the June 8 or August 10 program.
Image Credit: Laura Hoffman
Attendees will receive a kit to practice their stitching and stabilization skills and sample housing materials as participants cannot bring their own quilts to the workshop.
Tickets are $30 and include the cost of materials provided during the workshop. Tickets are available beginning May 20.
This conservation workshop will be repeated on Saturday, August 10; please register for either the June 8 or August 10 program.
Image Credit: Laura Hoffman
Exhibitions
March 28, 2024–August 26, 2024
Explore the creative practice of Amish quilters in the United States.