17mc01-MT-2016_Caravino, Castello di Masino (FAI),1 couple curtains doors and 1 mantovana (Room of the Viceroy)

Facilitated description:

 

The 3 curtains are made of silk fabric. 
The tents were made in Piedmontese workshops at the end of the 1700s.
The tents are kept at the Castle of Masino in Caravino in the Chamber of the Viceroy. 
The castle of Masino is an asset of the Fondo per l'Ambiente Italiano (FAI).
The Conservation and Restoration Centre carried out a maintenance (small interventions) on the tents in 2016.
The restorers cleaned the curtains from dust with a small vacuum cleaner. 
They reinforced the damaged parts with the sandwich technique (they sewed the damaged fabric between two layers of transparent fabric).
The restoration followed the methods already used in the other residences of the Fondo Ambiente Italiano.

 

 

 

 

Abstract of the intervention:

 

Maintenance

The project of extraordinary maintenance of the textile apparatus of the castle of Masino involved the furnishings of different environments (Chamber of the Viceroy, Chamber of the Ambassadors of Spain, Chamber of the Ambassadors of Austro, Ballroom, Hall of the Gobelins, Queen's Bedroom). In particular, in the Chamber of the Viceroy, a pair of curtains of the doors with mantle was restored, which presented degradations at the expense of the textile unit, lacerations and total lack of parts of original fabric due to anthropogenic causes. The intervention provided for physical cleaning operations by means of light macro-aspiration and consolidation of the degrades by means of a conservative sandwich technique with coverage of the degraded areas with tulle of a suitable colour. The project also includes the maintenance of the textile furnishings (6 armchairs, 2 chairs and 1 bed with canopy).

The intervention was carried out in line with the conservation methods already expressed in the planned maintenance sites of the other residences of the FAI (Villa del Balbianello, Villa Fogazzano Roi, Villa Della Porta Bozzolo, Villa Necchi Campiglio).