Last year I attended the Woolly Good Gathering and had a wonderful time finding new vendors, chatting with fellow crafters, and demonstrating with the Edinburgh Guild of Weavers, Spinners & Dyers. For 2025, I’ll be back, but not just as a guest! I’ll be giving a talk about my work, entitled “Protecting Your Textile Treasures with conservator Isabella Rossi.”
This talk will explain how to care for the objects that you’ve spent dozens of hours knitting and crocheting. We’ll cover the ‘agents of deterioration’, the elements that turn your garments from masterpieces into rags. These include moths, holes from use, light fading, wash fastness, and unwanted felting. The talk will explain how these problems arise, how to address them, and how to prevent them in the future.
The talk will take place on Saturday, 5 April 2025 from 11:00-12:00 at the Edinburgh Printmakers. Here is a link to the Woolly Good Gathering website to purchase tickets to the talk. I look forward to talking to the attendees about textile conservation and how it can apply to their crafts! If you would like to learn about my work as a textile conservator, you can find out more here.