Research from Textile Conservation
Study and Storage Center
Antonio Ratti Textile Center provides the environmental conditions necessary for the long-term preservation of textile works of art at The Met, as well as study and research facilities for Museum staff and the general public.
Colloquium
Watch videos from the Department of Textile Conservation's Winter 2018 Colloquium.
Curators and conservators present on how The Met preserves and exhibits textiles in celebration of the 20th Anniversary of the Antonio Ratti Textile Center and department of Textile Conservation.
Essays
The dye used in a Latin American Colonial textile from the sixteenth to seventeenth century is examined in order to determine the textile's origin.
Nobuko Shibayama, Elena Phipps, and Lucy Commoner
August 29, 2023