織品刺繡文物暫時性加固技術

Skills for Temporary Reinforcement of Historic Textiles and Embroidery

臺灣民間寺廟軒社藏有許多珍貴的傳統刺繡文物，近年來逐漸受到重視，早期的刺繡文物紛紛浮出檯面，但卻沒有充裕的資源和正確的觀念與予保存維護。臺灣傳統刺繡上常見以棉花為填充材，營造出立體感的高繡技法，其高繡圖像重量容易造成刺繡基底材撕裂破損。刺繡文物上使用引線固定的刺繡材料，如金屬線、鏡套、紙捻釘、綴珠、羽毛等，因引線老化斷裂，造成這些刺繡材料鬆脫、糾結甚至遺失。「織品刺繡文物暫時性加固技術」的研發和推廣目的，在於積極搶救這些收藏於臺灣民間之刺繡文物，以可逆性和最小干預為原則，考量日後可以安全移除所添加的修復材料，以最輕薄的尼龍網和最細的聚酯纖維單股線進行加固，輔助刺繡基底材支撐高繡重量，避免刺繡文物上的刺繡材料持續鬆脫遺失，確保刺繡文物於進入後續研究調查和保存修復之前，盡可能地保留住最多歷史訊息，將臺灣珍貴的繡品文化資產以最有效率的方式進行搶救保存。

Traditional embroidered relics are common, but precious, collections in folk temples and cultural clubs of Taiwan, and they have been attracting increasing attention in recent years. A lot of ancient embroideries exist, but there are insufficient resources and few correct protocols for protecting and maintaining such collections. Most of the traditional embroideries in Taiwan, which demonstrate superb embroidery skills, are raised embroideries with cotton as the padding material. However, the motifs on raised embroideries can easily result in splits or damages of the substrate due to their weight. The accessories stitched onto these embroidered relics, such as metal-wound threads, mirrors, paper piping, beads and feathers, can easily become loose, twisted or even lost due to aging or breaking of the thread. The purpose of this paper is to proactively rescue these historic folk embroideries in Taiwan. Following the accepted conservation principles of reversibility and minimum intervention and considering the easy removal of the added materials safely in the future, the lightest hexagonal polyester mesh are used for reinforcing, attached using the thinnest single-strand polyester thread. The applied mesh and the thread help the substrate to support the weight of the raised embroidery motif, preventing the accessories on the embroidered relics from becoming loose or lost, and retaining as much historical information as possible for future research. This repair and conservation preserves and maintains these precious textiles and embroidered heritage of Taiwan in the most effective way.