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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.

Background And Education

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, edited by Eng-Wilmot, Kira, Casteneda, Alison, Frankel, Nora, Getts, Anne, Schmitt, Emma, and Urick, Jessica., 127-139. 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, edited by Eng-Wilmot, Kira, Casteneda, Alison, Frankel, Nora, Getts, Anne, Schmitt, Emma, and Urick, Jessica., 173-177. 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, edited by Getts, A., Shaeffer, E., and Zaret, C., 1-10. 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. 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, edited by Holden, Amanda, Stevens, Sarah, Carlson, Julia, Petersen, Glenn, Schuetz, Emily, and Summerour, Rebecca., 55-62. American Institute for Conservation. 2012
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