#ThrowbackThursday: Mending Gauze

In September, 1971, the ROM opened the landmark exhibition Keep Me Warm One Night, a kaleidoscopic display of over 500 pieces of Canadian handweaving. It was the culmination of decades of pioneering research and collecting by the ROM curatorial powerhouse duo ‘Burnham and Burnham’, aka Dorothy K. Burnham and Harold B. Burnham.

To kick off the one-year count down to the ROM’s conference, Cloth Cultures (November 10-12, 2017), which will commemorate Dorothy Burnham’s many legacies, and to mark Canada’s approaching 2017 Sesquicentennial, we will be posting bi-weekly excerpts from Dorothy’s journal of Keep Me Warm One Night. We hope you will enjoy this unofficial glimpse into the bygone days of the ROM, and into the pioneering days of textile studies.

Transcript:
Monday - August 23rd

The preparators started to get the French ceramic show packed and the carpenters got the final section of the armour gallery construction into place. We got the bed in the bedroom  made - all the blankets and quilts left over from the display are under the coverlet to pad the frame & make it look comfortable.

Transcript:
Charlotte working on mending the gauze wedding dress.