Suzhou Silk Museum Successfully Repaired The Silk Dress For The First Time In The Song Dynasty

At noon yesterday, Suzhou silk In the museum's silk cultural relics restoration room, guests from the Zhenjiang Museum put on gloves and gently looked at two costumes. After 4 months of tense repairs, they commissioned the Suzhou Silk Museum's "diagnosis and treatment" of these two critically ill "patients" in the Song Dynasty, which have been successfully cured. This is the first time that our city has repaired the silk garments of the Song Dynasty. The two costumes were unearthed in 1975.

In July of that year, a group of sunrise troops in the Maofu commune of Jintan County, Zhenjiang Prefecture, discovered a tomb of the Southern Song Dynasty more than 700 years ago. The tomb of the tomb was kept intact, and a number of funeral objects were unearthed, including 34 pieces of clothing. In 1980, the unearthed relics and ancient corpses of Zhou tomb were exhibited at the Suzhou Museum. In less than two months, 282 thousand and 500 people visited and made a stir.

Because of making silk Clothes & Accessories Silk is a natural protein fiber, which is difficult to preserve for a long time, and is affected by groundwater erosion. To this end, in September this year, the Zhenjiang Museum chose these two costumes and commissioned the Suzhou silk museum to repair them. One of them was the Su Luo collar single shirt and the other one was the singled silk shirt, all of which were designated as the two grade cultural relics of the state.

　　 Suzhou Silk Museum "silk" inspection found that compared to the previous repair of a large number of Ming silk costumes, these two "older" larger clothing damage degree is more serious, there are a lot of cracks, holes, and with the phenomenon of sewing off, and almost all kinds of holes, four points and five cracks, with "illness" is not too much to describe. Coupled with many years of exhibitions and exhibitions, the color of the two costumes is shedding seriously, and their colors are very different.

In view of these problems, silk "long Zhong" seeks material and color similar materials, and then studies the corresponding "diagnosis and treatment" method according to the breakage situation, carefully and lightly sewing and strengthening. Finally, it can effectively control the extent of the possible brittleness and breakage of clothing, and maintain their soft and elegant appearance. The appearance also achieves the best effect of three-dimensional exhibition.

　　 Suzhou Silk Museum It was the special protection area for silk cultural relics restoration in 1999. It is also the only unit in the few cities in China to carry out silk cultural relics restoration. So far, more than 100 cases of silk "patients" have been admitted to the museum.