Textile conservation is the fabric of expert’s life
Of all the makeshift signs made in the chaotic days after Hurricane Katrina and the levee breaches, few seem more out of place than the banner folded up in the Algiers studio of textile conservation expert Jessica Hack.
Rather than “HELP PLEASE” or any other message of desperation, this banner, made from a white bedsheet, bears a message of hope: “9-West Has a Big Heart.”
“9-West” refers to the Charity Hospital wing where the two nurses and doctor who made the banner, using a magic marker to fill in big block letters, worked. They made it two days after Hurricane Katrina, as the city was descending into its darkest hours…
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