Centre for Textile Research
Date of this Version
2024
Document Type
Article
Citation
Published in IX Jornadas Internacionales de Textiles Precolombinos y Amerindianos / 9th International Conference on Pre-Columbian and Amerindian Textiles, Museo delle Culture, Milan, 2022. (Lincoln, Nebraska: Zea Books, 2024)
DOI: 10.32873/unl.dc.zea.1630
Abstract
La Cueva de la Candelaria, es una cueva mortuoria fechada entre el 1100 y 1300 d.C. (Aveleyra 2010) dónde se depositaron los cuerpos de grupos de cazadores recolectores junto con los bienes que les habían pertenecido en vida. Gracias a sus condiciones de cueva seca se lograron conservar y rescatar una gran variedad de artefactos elaborados con fibras semiduras de agavaceas como son los objetos de cordelería (redes, bolsas, cuerdas). Debido al deterioro natural de las fibras y los generados durante el contexto de enterramiento como son los lixiviados de los cuerpos, desarrollo de microorganismos, acciones de insectos y animales inferiores, entre otros; los bienes se encontraron con las fibras resecas, friables, con roturas y faltantes de tejido. Para su conservación y estabilidad estructural se decidió realizar la reposición de tejido por medio de hilos de papel japonés, cuyas propiedades fisicoquímicas se ajustan a los requerimientos y principios de conservación de bienes culturales. El uso de esta metodología se aplicó en varios bienes elaborados con cordeles; sin embargo, la presente exposición se centra en la conservación de una pequeña bolsa de tejido enlazado, donde se expone de manera sencilla la metodología desarrollada.
The Candelaria is a mortuary cave dated between 1100 and 1300 a.d. (Aveleyra 2010) where the bodies of groups of hunter-gatherers were deposited, together with the goods that had belonged to them in life. Thanks to the dry conditions of the cave, a wide variety of artefacts made of semi-hard agavacea fibres, such as rope objects (nets, sacks, ropes), have been preserved. As a result of the natural deterioration of the fibres and those caused by the burial context, such as leachate from the bodies, development of microorganisms, action of insects and lower animals, among others, the goods were found with dry, friable, broken and missing fibres. In order to preserve the fabric and ensure its structural stability, it was decided to replace it with Japanese paper yarn, the physicochemical properties of which comply with the requirements and principles of cultural heritage conservation.The use of this methodology applied to several goods made with twine, however this exhibition focuses on the conservation of a small bag of linked fabric, where the methodology developed presented in a simple way.
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