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Ballard, Mary

Ballard, Mary

Fellowship Advisor Museum Conservation Institute staff
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Ballard, Mary

Fellowship Advisor Museum Conservation Institute staff

Textile preservation and technical studies, particularly the light fading of dyes on fabrics; textile cleaning methods; and the biodeterioration of textiles.

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Background And Education

Education And Training

Publications

Selected Publications

  • Article

  • Chapter

    • Baglia, Regina A., Newsome, G. Asher, and Ballard, Mary W. 2018. "Ambient Mass Spectrometry Analysis of Alizarin-Dyed Textile and Dye Transfer to Paper." In The Textile Specialty Group Postprints: Papers Delivered at the Textile Subgroup Session: American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works, 46th Annual Meeting, Houston, Texas, May-June 2018, Volume 28. Eng-Wilmot, Kira, Casteneda, Alison, Frankel, Nora, Getts, Anne, Schmitt, Emma, and Urick, Jessica, editors. 127–139. Washington, DC: Textile Specialty Group of the American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works. 2018
    • Ballard, Mary W., Gentry, Allison, and Dalela, Namrata. 2018. "Old and New Solutions to Dissipate Static Charge for Plexiglas Pressure Mounts." In The Textile Specialty Group Postprints: Papers Delivered at the Textiles Supgroup Session: American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works, 46th Annual Meeting, Houston, Texas, May-June 2018, Volume 28. Eng-Wilmot, Kira, Casteneda, Alison, Frankel, Nora, Getts, Anne, Schmitt, Emma, and Urick, Jessica, editors. 173–177. Washington, DC: Textile Specialty Group of the American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works. 2018
    • McClean, Taylor, Bolin, Courtney A., and Ballard, Mary W. 2017. "The Effect of Light Emitting Diode Lamps (LEDs) on 19th century Dyed & Printed Cotton Fabrics." In Textile Specialty Group PostPrints 43rd AIC Annual Meeting Miami, Florida May 2015. Getts, A., Shaeffer, E., and Zaret, C., editors. 1–10. Washington, DC: AIC. 2017
    • Ballard, Mary W., Bolin, Courtney, Ohno, Yoshi, McClean, Taylor, and Lena, Nick. 2015. "LED Lighting in Museums: Conservation and Color of Textiles." In 2015 Proceedings of AATCC Internationa Conference. 71–101. Research Triangle Park, NC: American Association of Textile Chemists and Colorists. 2015
    • Ballard, Mary W., France, Christine A. M., Moini, Mehdi, and Solazzo, Caroline. 2012. "Dating Silk and Other Innovations in Mass Spectrometry." In The Textile Specialty Group PostPrints: Papers Delivered at the Textile Subgroup Session (AIC 40th Annual Meeting) Volume 22. Holden, Amanda, Stevens, Sarah, Carlson, Julia, Petersen, Glenn, Schuetz, Emily, and Summerour, Rebecca, editors. 55–62. American Institute for Conservation. 2012
    • Ballard, Mary W., Burke, Brendan, and Simpson, Elizabeth. 2012. "Gordion Dokumalari: Gordion Textiles." In Frigler, Midas'in ulkesinde, anitlarin golgesinde : Phrygians, in the land of Midas, in the shadow of monuments. Sivas, Hakan and Tufekci Sivas, Taciser, editors. 360–375. Beyoglu, Turkey: Yapi Kredi Yayinlari: Tupras. 2012
    • Ballard, Mary W. 2012. "Measuring Your Color Vision with a Glenn Colorule." In The Textile Specialty Group Postprints: Papers Delivered at the Textile Subgroup Session (AIC 40th Annual Meeting), Volume 22. Holden, Amanda, Stevens, Sarah, Carlson, Julia, Petersen, Glenn, Schuetz, Emily, and Summerour, Rebecca, editors. 103–105. Washington, DC: American Institute for Conservation. 2012
    • Ballard, Mary W., Alden, Harry, Cunningham, Roland H., Hopwood, Walter, Koles, Joseph, and Dussubieux, Laure. 2010. "Appendix 8: Preliminary Analyses of Textiles Associated with the Wooden Furniture of Tumulus MM." In The Gordion Wooden Objects, Volume 1 The Furniture from Tumulus MM. Simpson, Elizabeth, editor. 203–223. Leiden; Boston: Brill. 2010
    • Ballard, Mary W. 2009. "Update: Detergency & the Aqueous Cleaning of Antique Textiles." In Postprints of the Textile Specialty Group. 89–101. Washington, DC: American Institute for Conservation. 2009
    • Ballard, Mary W. 2007. "Microbial Growth on Textiles: Conflicting Conventions." In Facing Impermanence: Exploring Preventive Conservation for Textiles: Preprints, North American Textile Conservation Conference 2007, Washington, DC, November 6-9, 2007 = Enfrentando la Inestabilidad: Explorando la Conservacion Preventiva de Textiles: .... Thomassen-Krauss, Suzanne, editor. 60–65. North American Textile Conservation Conference. 2007

  • Conference Paper

    • Ballard, Mary, Mina, Laura, Zaret, Cathleen, and Grissom, Carol. 2016. "A Biological Disaster to Costume." from The Textile Specialty Group Postprints: Papers Delivered at the Textiles Subgroup Session: American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works, 42th Annual Meeting, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, May 2016. 26, 75–88. Washington, DC: American Institute for Conservation. 2016

  • Webpage

Editor Of

  • Book

    • Ballard, Mary W. and Dignard, Carole , editors. 2009. Proceedings of the Forum on the Conservation of Thangkas: Special Session of the ICOM-CC 15th Triennial Conference, New Delhi, India, September 26,2008. Rome: International Council of Museums, Conservation Committee. 2009

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