Comments on: Filming the conservation of Marie-Antoinette’s commode http://wallacecollection.org/blog/2013/03/filming-the-conservation-of-marie-antoinettes-commode/ Fri, 15 Mar 2013 01:57:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: Bob http://wallacecollection.org/blog/2013/03/filming-the-conservation-of-marie-antoinettes-commode/comment-page-1/#comment-773 Bob Fri, 15 Mar 2013 01:57:17 +0000 http://wallacecollection.org/blog/?p=1685#comment-773 <strong>Bob...</strong> It’s a shame you don’t have a donate button! I’d without a doubt donate to this fantastic blog! I suppose for now i’ll settle for bookmarking and adding your RSS feed to my Google account. I look forward to new updates and will share this blog with my ... Bob…

It’s a shame you don’t have a donate button! I’d without a doubt donate to this fantastic blog! I suppose for now i’ll settle for bookmarking and adding your RSS feed to my Google account. I look forward to new updates and will share this blog with my …

]]> By: Anna Shelley http://wallacecollection.org/blog/2013/03/filming-the-conservation-of-marie-antoinettes-commode/comment-page-1/#comment-533 Anna Shelley Fri, 08 Mar 2013 17:24:08 +0000 http://wallacecollection.org/blog/?p=1685#comment-533 Delicate, sensitively-filmed and informative, just the right amount of detail to stimulate further interest. Among my favourite objects at the Wallace are the curtains and wall-coverings (touched on briefly in 'Transforming the Dutch Galleries') and it would be wonderful to have a series of films following the process from the original designs on paper, the weaving in silk and then to see the fabric measured up and transformed into those amazing wall coverings and window 'dressings'. I am old enough to remember how dark and gloomy those rooms once looked. It would be interesting to watch and listen to interviews with historic interior designers, silk weavers and makers. Perhaps workshops to follow in passementerie? Delicate, sensitively-filmed and informative, just the right amount of detail to stimulate further interest. Among my favourite objects at the Wallace are the curtains and wall-coverings (touched on briefly in ‘Transforming the Dutch Galleries’) and it would be wonderful to have a series of films following the process from the original designs on paper, the weaving in silk and then to see the fabric measured up and transformed into those amazing wall coverings and window ‘dressings’. I am old enough to remember how dark and gloomy those rooms once looked. It would be interesting to watch and listen to interviews with historic interior designers, silk weavers and makers. Perhaps workshops to follow in passementerie?

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