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		<title>Conservation Cleaning of a Wedding Dress</title>
		<link>http://www.awm.gov.au/blog/2009/12/14/conservation-cleaning-of-a-wedding-dress/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 05:50:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jessie Firth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Emma Jones previously mentioned in 60 year old sweat on a wedding dress – a conservation challenge the preparation of Miss Platt-Hepworth’s wedding dress for the exhibition Of Love and War. The decision was made by the curator Rebecca Britt to keep the staining as evidence of use. While the staining is important to keep, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Dorothy&#8221; the Kitbag</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 03:26:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bridie Kirkpatrick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Isn’t it funny how things come about? While working on the textiles component for the exhibition Of Love and War a painted kitbag came to me for treatment. The lovely pin-up painted on the bag looked an awful lot like Dorothy Lamour, a beautiful actress known as the “Sarong Girl” in the 1940’s.  As the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wedding Dresses, Part 3</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 04:31:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah Clayton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Once we determined that the remaining three wedding dresses, requested for the exhibtion Of Love and War, were able to be safely put on display, the textile conservators worked in collaboration with curators and exhibition staff to determine the dimensions of showcase and, the types and styles of mannequins. To get the most accurate dimensions [...]]]></description>
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		<title>60 year old sweat on a  wedding dress &#8211; a conservation challenge</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 23:47:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emma Jones</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back in September, I was doing some work out at our Treloar Annex, which is where our conservators work.  I was videoing the construction process of the mannequins being made for the 3 wedding dresses  that are to be included in the “Of love and war” exhibition. During a break in filming I got talking [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wedding Dresses, part 2</title>
		<link>http://www.awm.gov.au/blog/2009/11/11/wedding-dresses-part-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 05:02:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah Clayton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ As previously explained four wedding dresses were initially selected for &#8220;Of Love and War&#8220;. One of the wedding dresses, originally owned by Mrs N S Bissaker, required hundreds of hours of painstaking work before it would be strong enough for display, so unfortunately it will not be ready for display in “Of Love and War”.  [...]]]></description>
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