{"id":180,"date":"2008-04-22T23:32:37","date_gmt":"2008-04-23T03:32:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/?p=180"},"modified":"2008-05-31T00:14:12","modified_gmt":"2008-05-31T04:14:12","slug":"quilt-storage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/?p=180","title":{"rendered":"Quilt Storage"},"content":{"rendered":"

I bought some archival boxes and tissue paper back in December with the goal of better quilt storage. My quilts have been rolled up on tubes and stored in a closet in my workroom. Over the years, I’ve been adding quilts to the rolls, in some cases having five quilts on one roll. While this in itself isn’t necessarily a bad thing, especially considering that I did keep the quilts out of sunlight, the problem was I didn’t know which quilts were on which roll and, worse still, the quilts were crunching up on the bottom from the weight of the quilts. This past weekend, I removed the doors from the closet and dumped everything — containers filled with fabric, rolled quilts, and more.<\/p>\n

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I located these boxes by doing a search on Amazon for archival quilt storage boxes. This particular box comes with a yellowish-color acid-free tissue paper. It measures 6 x 30 x 18. I recently ordered another three from Amazon. When searching, try “Acid-Free Quilt & Textile Storage Box.”<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The company name on the box is SAR – S.A. Richards Inc. in Fort Lee, New Jersey. It’s possible you can also buy them direct.<\/p>\n

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The box arrives flat. I nearly cut through the it when removing the corrugated cardboard that was taped on a bit too tight.<\/p>\n

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The box folds up without much effort.<\/p>\n

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I used the acid-free tissue paper supplied with the box to line the box. I am not sure if this step is necessary, being that the box itself is acid-free, but I did so anyway.<\/p>\n

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These are OLD quilts – made in the early 1990s!\u00a0<\/strong>
\nThe next step was sorting my quilts, putting the older ones together. The last time I saw these quilts was when I photographed them in December. Prior, I haven’t seen some of these quilts in years. It was odd to look and realize all of the years that have gone by. In many of my older quilts, I wrote notes on the hanging sleeve. One one quilt, I wrote about my new puppy, Mustang. I went on to say that some of Mustang’s dog hairs are in the quilt and I’m leaving them there because I want them there. That was for the benefit of judges who were who thought I left them by mistake. Mustang was with us some 12 years and then died. When looking at the quilt to store it, I found myself searching for his dog hairs. I did find a couple, and I carefully kept them in place.<\/p>\n

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I stuffed paper along every fold that I made.<\/p>\n

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More old quilts from the early 1990s.
\n<\/strong>I continued sorting the quilts, putting similar ones together. In the early 1990’s, I published two quilt patterns — ColorWheels and Tulip Star — under “Gloria Hansen Designs.” The quilts above are examples from those patterns.<\/p>\n

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After the box was filled, I put a final piece of tissue paper on the top. You’ll notice this paper is white rather than the yellow-ish color of the other tissue paper. Once I ran out of the paper that came with the box, I used the white paper (very similar to the paper used by IQA when they do their fabulous job of returning quilts). This paper I bought from Light Impressions<\/a>. They are located in Rochester, NY, and their phone number is 1-800-828-6216.<\/p>\n

With the box closed, I knew I needed a system for knowing which quilt was in which box.<\/p>\n

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Since I had photographed all of the quilts in December, I printed the quilt images (with their names) onto paper and used archival glue to add them to the outside of the box. I also added my name and address. This looks like many quilts for one box, but a couple are very small.<\/p>\n

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I continued on, filling three boxes. While I’ve a lot more to go, this is a good start.<\/p>\n

I’ll note that if you want to reduce any fold lines, the best thing is to stuff the folds with a lot of tissue and store one quilt per box. In my case, I’m okay with putting more than one quilt in a box, especially whe the quilt is on the small side. Periodically I’ll take the boxes out and look at the quilts, refolding and redistributing the order.<\/p>\n

For more information on quilt storage, see this post I wrote in December<\/a>. It contains conservation links and more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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