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Textile Conservation Workshop in Algeria, 2006

Sponsored by the U.S. Ambassador’s Grant for Cultural Preservation, National Bardo Museum, Algiers, Algeria. Working in a 16th-century Moorish villa museum, training 10 professionals, this workshop focused on the treatment and stabilization of 15 Ottoman style textiles and the upgrade of storage and exhibition conditions.

Julia and other conservators conservators in white lab coats hold open a large deteriorated red and green embroidered textile in the open courtyard of the Bardo Museum, Tunisia.
Julia Brennan and colleagues crouch around a decorative flat textile laid on the tiled floor of the Bardo Museum courtyard.
Julia Brennan and two Tunisian colleagues lean over a small red and blue floral textile fragment on a worktable.
Julia Brennan in a white lab coat shows three Tunisian colleagues how to handle a dark blue velvet and gold embroidered garment on a worktable.

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