The Burgos Tapestry: A Study in Conservation

Learn more about the tapestry, which is now on view at The Cloisters after more than thirty years: http://tinyurl.com/burgostapestry

This video chronicles the amazing conservation and restoration of the sixteenth-century tapestry Christ is Born as Man's Redeemer, also known as the Burgos tapestry. Conservators Tina Kane and Alice Blohm describe the more than thirty years of painstaking restoration that they, along with other members of the Met's Textile Conservation department staff, performed on this work of art, which is more than 25 feet wide and 13 feet high.

Editor - Stephanie Wuertz
Camera - Jessica Glass and Wayne De La Roche
Sound - Kate Farrell and David Raymond
Archivist - Robin Schwalb
Post-Production Supervisor - Paul Caro
Additional Photography - Andrew Winslow
Transcribers - Nadja Hansen and Maxwell Mustardo
Special Thanks - Elizabeth Weinfield
Music - Parthenia

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Metropolitan
• Museum
• of
• art
• medieval_art
• cloisters
• Burgos
• tapestry
• textile
• conservation
• Tina
• Kane
• Alice
• Blohm

[alishstar]

I live in Utah and odds are I will never make it back east. What I need to know is how I can find a place back here that I can do this kind of work?

[color4free]

Luv the history!! sub back

[krglongbourn]

thank you very much, for many of us we cant get to your museum, so with this we can. What a lovely gift to sew a piece that original such a shame that we dont teach these lost art in the schools. such a loss to the world to not have this as it was that long ago.