Cleaning Henry VIII's tapestries

Two and a half hours careful conservation in under two minutes! A 16th century tapestry belonging to Henry VIII is being washed in one of the worlds largest tapestry baths, measuring approximately 9 metres x 5 metres. Using de-ionised (softened) water and our own mix of detergent the tapestry is washed over a period of 4 hours by our textile conservation specialists, and over seen by our conservation scientists. The tapestry is left in place with fans and will be dry within 24 hours.

Category:

Nonprofits & Activism

Tags:

• conservation
• Henry
• VIII
• hampton
• court
• palace
• tapestry

[blastforth]

I would think something like that would have a tag, "Dry clean only"

[KristinMcCluskeyArt]

@toadabc I think it's an agitator. Like in a washing machine, but gentler.

[toadabc]

What the heck is the thing that keeps going back and forth?

[mmedefarge]

Ah, I'd like one of those gizmos for my apartment. Does it have a vacuum attachment?

[XxCrazygal2007xX]

God how I would LOVE to do that job! I'd be too scared to touch something so valuable though!