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Jingzhou Hangzhou Hunan

Integrated HP

After we determined to restore the delicate silk relics as our target of this year’s project, we found that we had a lot of questions about the field of restoration. In order to promote the design of our project, we visited several museums and cultural conservation center which related to silk relics restoration in China and interviewed the experts there. We recorded each interview and thought carefully about what they said.Constantly their words had great influence on our project's different stages.

JingZhou Cultural Conservation and Restoration Center

JingZhou is an ancient city with a long history, several ancient tombs was excavated there in history. Relying on this history background JingZhou Cultural Conservation and Restoration center became Key scientific research center in China.It has rich experience in cultural relics restoration and more importantly, it is the first center in China that uses biological method to restore the silk relics. Thus, we carried our questions about restoration to visit and interview two experts there.

Wu shunqing (1949 ~), graduated from Chemistry Department of Wuhan University, majoring in macromolecule, was assigned to work in JingZhou Museum. He used to be the director and researcher of JingZhou Cultural Conversation and Restoration Center. He used biological technology in the ancient silk fabric cleaning, reinforcement and other integrated solutions, which has made breakthroughs in restoration field,and it has been identified as a world advanced level by the state administration of cultural heritage experts

Yanfei Wei , the current director and researcher of JingZhou Cultural Conservation and Restoration Center. He has rich research experience in the unearthed, cleaned, reinforced and preserved silk relics.He has published a lot of papers on silk restoration.

Q1: What is the restoration process of silk relics ?

Q2: What are the principles for the restoration of cultural relics?

Q3: What are the existing methods of restoration that you use?

China National Silk Museum

Located by the west lake in hangzhou, China silk museum is the first and the largest national silk museum in the world. The China silk museum has the world's most advanced original research on the origin of silk, cultural exchanges along the silk road, restoration of traditional weaving and dyeing techniques, and protection and restoration of textiles, and serves its counterparts in the national cultural and museology industry.

Shujuan Wang, is a deputy director of technology department of China Silk Museum.In the past 10 years, she has presided over or participated in several provincial-level and ministerial-level projects, such as "standards for archival records of preservation and restoration of collections of silk fabrics". Based on solving practical problems encountered in conservation and restoration, she has made positive contributions to the development of cultural relics restoration technology.

Q1:What are the commonly used methods of silk repair that you use?

Q2: What’s the status quo of cultural relics preservation in China?

Hunan Provincial Museum

Hunan Provincial Museum is one of the most famous museums in China. The museum has a permanent display of the tomb of the Han dynasty at Mawangdui. The tomb is rich in burial goods, including silk textiles, silk books, silk paintings, lacquerware, pottery, bamboo slips, seals, mud seals, bamboo ware, agricultural and animal products, Chinese herbal medicine and other relics of more than 3,000 pieces. One of the most famous pieces is a ‘plain gauze garment (素纱襌衣)’, which was the inspiration of our project. After the project is completed, we went to Hunan Provincial Museum again to show our achievements and listen to Suggestions of the experts there .

Xianyan Dong, associate researcher, textile cultural relics protection and restoration of Hunan Provincial Museum. She is involved in the reproduction work of ‘plain gauze garment (素纱襌衣)’, so that she knows well about the preservation status of ‘plain gauze garment (素纱襌衣)’.