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Thread-by-Thread Rerigging of the Ship

Attributed to Robert Weaver

This Page Highlights a Major Component of the Treatment of ACP1694, Landing of Slaves at Virginia, 1619

Treatment performed at: Winterthur Museum

Overseen by Conservators: Joyce Hill Stoner, Lauren Fair, Mark Anderson, and Mike Podmaniczky

Wooden, model ship in the style of  a nineteenth century British Man O'War, rigged with cotton thread secured with pins, required broken threads be attached to supportive, new cotton threads and research of historic rigging patterns
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An entire post was devoted to this treatment in my blog.
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