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Care & Collections

Protect the cloth you can actually describe. Care, storage and object-documentation guidance begins with fibre, construction, dye, condition and significance. Contemporary garments and fragile collections do not get the same instruction.

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Folded silk scarf in an archival drawer beside cotton gloves
Folded silk scarf in an archival drawer beside cotton gloves. Editorial photograph made for Resist & Form.

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Find the precise question.

Care, storage and object-documentation guidance begins with fibre, construction, dye, condition and significance. Contemporary garments and fragile collections do not get the same instruction.

Category boundary

Broad enough to enter.

Care, storage and object-documentation guidance begins with fibre, construction, dye, condition and significance. Contemporary garments and fragile collections do not get the same instruction. The precise mechanism belongs in the linked article or field-index row.