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A large part of a textile conservator’s job is preparing and mounting objects for display. Sometimes this can be a relatively straightforward job, but at other times it can be more complicated. This was the case for the mounting of the poppy hijab for the National War Museum’s current exhibition, The Poppy: A Symbol of Remembrance.
If there’s one thing I’ve learnt while working on digital content for Photography: A Victorian Sensation at the National Museum of Scotland, it’s that the more things change, the more they stay the same, and when the Victorians got in front of a camera, they were just like us. Check out these preening dandies for starters: you can see it in their eyes, they’re gutted to be two centuries too early for Instagram.
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