64-MT-2015_Valsolda, Villa Fogazzaro Roi (FAI), Manifattura Aubusson, Fabric tapestry rug

Facilitated description: 

 

The Aubusson carpet is a type of carpet made in France. 
The carpet was made in the early 1800s. 
The carpet is kept at Villa Fogazzaro Roi in Valsolda. 
Villa Fogazzaro Roi is an asset of the Italian Environment Fund. 
The La Venaria Reale Conservation and Restoration Centre restored the carpet in 2015-2017. 
The restorers removed the dust from the carpet with a small vacuum cleaner.
They sewed and reinforced the central part of the carpet ruined and torn. 
They sewed a reinforcement fabric behind the carpet.
The restorers saw that the edges of the carpet were bent behind the carpet. 
The restorers decided together with the rug managers to keep the folded edges under the rug because there was no room in the room to put the rug open.
In the end, they protected the edges of the carpet with fabric and folded the edges under the carpet again.

 

 

 

Abstract of the intervention: 

 

Maintenance 

The project of conservative recovery of the Aubusson carpet of Villa Fogazzaro Roi is part of the planned maintenance of the textile artifacts of the villas of the FAI (Italian Environment Fund) curated by the Conservation and Restoration Center "La Venaria Reale". The planning of the maintenance and restoration of the textile furnishings preserved in the historic museum houses makes it possible to cope with the necessary cleaning and monitoring of the conservation status. The carpet has been subjected to cleaning of the recto and verso by macro-suction in order to remove deposits of foreign material present on the surface. This was followed by the consolidation of the central field to recover stability in correspondence with the weft gaps and lacerations of the weave. It has therefore intervened through conservative restoration, applying on the back of the artifact a support fabric with suitable stopping points. During the restoration the four borders of the tapestry were found folded and stitched below. Since the villa did not have adequate measures for the relocation of the tapestry with open borders and that these are strongly degraded parts, it was decided to consolidate the four strips of canvas and to fold them back below the carpet, after protection of the back by linen cloth lining.