Jacqueline Hyman January 2012

Jacqueline Hyman provided us with a really interesting talk on the research and restoration she has been carrying out on a collection of medieval children's clothes. The clothes had been excavated from burial sites in Egypt in the 1930's and had been stored in a cardboard box in an archive ever since. when she examined them she realised that they were a very important collection as there is nothing quite like them in other collections. She has been researching into them using her own meticulous methods and modern technology such as the electron microscope which magnifies fibres hundreds of times.

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It was a very interesting and informative talk.