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Conservation and Display of a Rare Silk Doublet at Grimsthorpe Castle, Lincolnshire
Background For the team at Grimsthorpe Castle, Lincolnshire, the conservation of a rare silk doublet, last exhibited at the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) in the 1990s, prompted a mission to display this fragile object and its matching trunkhose at Grimsthorpe in optimum environmental conditions. The costume, on show...