Zespół obiciowych aksamitów wzorzystych z pałacu w Wilanowie - problemy konserwatorskie

• Authors: Żukowska Maria

Title variants

EN

A SET OF FIGURED UPHOLSTERY VELVETS, THE SO-CALLED VELOURS DE GENNE, IN THE PALACE OF WILANÓW. CONSERVATION PROBLEMS

• Languages of publication: PL EN

Abstracts

EN

A set of patterned velvets covering the walls in 5 rooms of the oldest part of the Palace in Wilanow is one of the most valuable examples of representative decoration of baroque interiors. Textiles of this kind were made in Genoa, Venice, Florence. Milan, Ferrara, Rome and Naples. The provenance of Wlanow fabrics has not as yet been established. They were installed in the thirties of the 18th century by Mary Sophie Denhof, (later Czartoryska), daughter of Elisabeth Sieniawska, the first owner of Wilanow after the Sobieskis. Since their installation in 1955, the fabrics were never taken off the walls. A natural result of many-years use and effect of unfavourable conditions was their serious damage at the time when the Palace was taken over by the state. In 195562 the velvets were subjected to thorough conservation by a Warsaw branch office of the Ateliers for Monuments’ Conservation. Conservation work consisted in the following procedure: taking the velvets off the walls together with stretchers, cleaning with distilled water, disinfection with thymol and making of two kinds of a protective net: — in most damaged places a thick net was woven with a needle and thread, put on the face of the cloth and fastened to the original only on borders of a damaged part, — in less damaged places both wefts and warps were intercepted with 3 mm stitches in order to consolidate impaired parts. Even today the conservation work carried out evokes admiration of both professionals and visitors. Unfortunately, due to an intensive use of the Palace in the following 24 years, enormous number of visiting people, less effectively operating air-conditioning equipment, the condition of the fabrics worsened markedly. At present the surface of the fabrics is much dusted and new damages can be seen. During numerous consultations all specialists — conservators have unanimously recognized the need for cleaning and further conservation. The conservation of all upholstery would be an enormous and long undertaking. In the face of noticeable shortage of conservators of fabrics this is a serious problem which has to be solved without any further delay.

Keywords

PL

zespół obiciowych aksamitów z pałacu w Wilanowie; tkaniny z Wilanowa; konserwacja tkanin; Muzeum w Wilanowie

• Publisher: Narodowy Instytut Dziedzictwa
• Journal: Ochrona Zabytków
• Year: 1988
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 52-55

Dates

published

1988

Contributors

author

Żukowska Maria

• Muzeum w Wilanowie Oddział Muzeum Narodowego w Warszawie

Identifiers

ISSN

0029-8247