This holds with what I learned at a workshop at the Royal BC Museum. At the time they were doing earthquake retrofit of their buildings, and every single artifact had had to be stored off-site, many in special purpose-built cases of ethafoam. It was explained to us that the ethylene-based plastics are inert, at least over the time period of several lifetimes :p My organic chemistry was never very good < :S > but I think that the better plastic storage boxes are an admixture of polyethyl- and polycarb- 'stuff.'
On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 10:27 AM, Susan Reishus <[email protected]>wrote: > All > programs experts stated they keep them in Rubbermaid containers, as they > were > of the plastic that did not affect ancient textiles in any way. They used > acid-free tissue for "soft folds", and of course the item must be > completely > dry. > -- Bev in Shirley BC, near Sooke on beautiful Vancouver Island, west coast of Canada - To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [email protected]. For help, write to [email protected]
