Conservation around the Millennium (Hungarian National Museum, 2001)

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10. So-called Cologne border5 from the 14th century.

11. Colour reconstruction of the metal surfaces of the textile fragment in picture 10.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

The authors would like to thank Ildikó Boross assistant professor at the Hungarian University of Fine Arts who helped in taking photos by optical microscop.

NOTES

1. The scanning electron-micrograph was taken by Erzsébet Gondár chemist in the Textile Industrial Research Institute.

2. The scanning electron-micrograph was taken by dr. Attila Tóth physicist in the Institute of Technical Physics and Material Science of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

3. Spectrum made by energy dispersive X-ray analysis (EDS). The EDS was made by dr. Attila Tóth physicist.

4. Museum of Applied Arts Budapest, inv. No. 7288. The results suggest the use of silver coated membrane thread.

5. Germanisches Nationalmuseum Nürnberg inv. No. 424. The results suggest the presence of silver coated membrane thread.

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