{"id":2838,"date":"2013-02-07T11:20:42","date_gmt":"2013-02-07T19:20:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/?p=2838"},"modified":"2013-02-07T11:20:42","modified_gmt":"2013-02-07T19:20:42","slug":"moths-conservation-cold-wax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/?p=2838","title":{"rendered":"Moths, Conservation, Cold Wax\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am still fighting case making moths. Last night I opened a jar of small pieces that I made for testing, to find moths living amongst them. I hate killing things, but I am getting quite frustrated with not knowing where or when I will find critters. I am pretty sure that I brought them into the house in hay for the bunnies. <\/p>\n<p>On the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theconservationcenter.com\/\" >Conservation Center<\/a> site I found this information about a moth infestation of a Tibetan Ladahki Headdress. I had originally read that the only way to kill the moth cycle was heat. Not a good solution, since I previously used wax on some of my pieces. This is the method used\u2013<\/p>\n<p><i>\u2026frozen to prevent contamination of the other objects in the lab and to kill moth activity, including all adults, larvae and eggs. After remaining in a freezer at -20\u02daC for one and a half months\u2026<\/i><\/p>\n<p>I have been reading a bit about artifacts and conservation looking for information as to how to age\/distress components added to artifacts. Thought perhaps some interesting materials or methods to use them might be appropriate for some of my work.<\/p>\n<p>I feel like I am constantly learning new things about, well just about everything. I don\u2019t want to alter the color of the wool pieces too much, but I do need to distress them. Perhaps the solution for future pieces is to distress the wool before I use it, or not use it at all. When I have used hot wax on wool the result is a rather plastic appearance. <\/p>\n<p>I ordered a variety of waxes and am attempting to use cold wax processes. I am liking d-limonene with white and amber microcrystalline, but I do not like that my studio has the odor of orange oil. <\/p>\n<div class=\"centered\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/WaxTestsIMG_8363.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\">White Microcrystalline Wax with d-Limonene<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"centered\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/MicroCrystallineIMG_8366.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\">Waxed Pieces<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Displaying the finished wool pieces is another problem that I have been thinking about. I was planning to build boxes\/crates to house\/display the pieces, but then how to keep the pieces in place? I generally opt for nails straight through with a head that I like. <\/p>\n<p>This would be a great option\u2013<\/p>\n<div class=\"centered\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/tibetan-6-headdress_mount_reverse.jpg\" alt=\"Mounting Headdress\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\">Mounting Headdress. Image from the Conservation Center Site<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"centered\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/tibetan-7-headdress_after.jpg\" alt=\"Finished Conservation of Headdress\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\">Finished Conservation of Headdress. Image from the Conservation Center Site<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am still fighting case making moths. Last night I opened a jar of small pieces that I made for testing, to find moths living amongst them. I hate killing things, but I am getting quite frustrated with not knowing where or when I will find critters. I am pretty sure that I brought them &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/?p=2838\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Moths, Conservation, Cold Wax\u2026<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,29,24,15,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-blogs-that-i-like","category-fiber","category-materials","category-processes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2838"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2846,"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2838\/revisions\/2846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}