Virtual Exhibitions

Today we took huge reproduction lace curtains out of one of the "Period rooms".  Our other "period room" had already had it's lace curtains removed, and since then they have been carefully cleaned so that they're nice and clean and white again, like they were when they were first hung up.  The curtains we took down today, on the other hand, were a dingy yellowish gray. 

We took the curtains outside one by one and shook them free of dust. They looked a little better after they had been out in the sun and shaken, but they're still not nearly as nice looking as the ones that have been dry cleaned.  We carefullly hung them on paper covered coat hangers and covered them in painters plastic to protect them from further harm.  Hopefully they'll get cleaned soon, but until then they're nice and safe.