Máximo Rocha, P;
D'Ayala, D;
Altamirano, H;
Vlachou-Mogire, C;
Klein, L;
Schrott, A;
(2021)
The effect of changes in air humidity on historic tapestries.
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1st International Conference on Moisture in Buildings 2021.
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Abstract
Historic tapestries are textile artworks usually found hanging inside historic buildings. They form part of the European heritage have been exposed for centuries to diverse environmental conditions some of which have permanently damaged them. To inform better appropriate conservation practices, their physical behavior when exposed to environmental changes must be understood. The research conducted aimed to assess how the internal environment conditions in a historic building affects the tapestries’ structures and produce change in their strain. For this a series of experiments on a historic 19th century tapestry inside an environmental chamber carried out and cycles of moisture adsorption and desorption tested. Digital Image Correlation (DIC) and magnetic sensors developed by were used to test successive stages of expansion and retraction of the tapestry given different levels of relative humidity (RH) in the environment.
| Type: | Proceedings paper |
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| Title: | The effect of changes in air humidity on historic tapestries |
| Event: | 1st International Conference on Moisture in Buildings 2021 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.14293/icmb210074 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.14293/ICMB210074 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Published under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International ( CC BY 4.0). Users are allowed to share (copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format) and adapt (remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially), as long as the authors and the publisher are explicitly identified and properly acknowledged as the original source. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment > Bartlett School Env, Energy and Resources |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10134754 |
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