Dr Mary M. Brooks Publications

O’CONNOR, S. A. and BROOKS, M. M. 2007. X-radiography of Textiles, Dress and Related Objects. Oxford: Elsevier

Mary M. Brooks, 2000. Textiles Revealed. Archetype Publications

Mary M. Brooks PhD MA DMS DipTexCon FIIC ACR FHEA. Reader, Programme Leader MA Museums & Galleries.

For a summary of Mary M Brooks' doctoral research, 'Innovation, invention and failure: the case of regenerated protein fibres', please see the pdf attached at the bottom of this page.

In progress:

BROOKS, M. M. (commissioned for 2010.) Conserving fashion. In: M. G. Muzzarelli& G. Riello Fashion-able Histories / Storie di Moda. Milan: Bruno Mondadori (Publishers).

BROOKS, M. M. and EASTOP, D., eds. Readings in Textile Conservation. (Working title.) Los Angeles:Getty Conservation Institute.

BROOKS, M. M. (commissioned for 2010.) Sharing conservation ethics, practice and decision-making with museum visitors. J. MARSTINE, ed. Routledge Companion to Museum Ethics: Redefining Ethics for the Twenty-First Century Museum. London: Routledge.

BROOKS, M. M. English 17thC embroideries (working title). Needleprint.

BROOKS, M. M. Embracing Decay: Time, Preservation and the Museum. In: Material Worlds. University of Leicester.

Submitted:

BROOKS, M. M. ‘She read while they wrought’: women’s reading and embroidery as social activities in early modern England. Textile History

BROOKS, M. M. Decay, preservation and the making of meaning. In: P. SMITH, ed. Ways of Making and Knowing: The Material Culture of Empirical Knowledge. Postprints of the 2005 Conference. Cultural Histories of the Material World Series Bard Graduate Centre & Harvard University Press

BROOKS, M. M. ‘The Flow of Action’: knitting, making and thinking. In: J. HEMMMINGS, ed. In the Loop. Postprints of the WSA conference, July 2008.

In Press:

BROOKS, M. M. The structure and characteristics of regenerated protein fibres: A preliminary review. In: S. EICHORN, M. JAFFE and T. KIKUTANI, eds. Handbook of Fibre Structure. Cambridge: Woodhead Publishing.

ERICSSON, C. & BROOKS, M. M. Silent needles, speaking flowers: the language of flowers as a tool for communication in women’s embroidery from Victorian Britain. Textiles as Cultural Communication. Textile Society of America Conference Proceedings 2008. Middletown, USA: Textile Society of America.

Published:

Brooks, M. M. 2009. Regenerated protein fibres: a review. In: S. Eichhorn, J.W. S. Hearle, M. Jaffe & T. Kikutani,, eds. Handbook of Textile Fibre Structure: Natural, Regenerated, Inorganic and Specialist fibres. (Vol. 2.) Cambridge: Woodhead, 234-265 www.woodheadpublishing.com/7303

BROOKS, M. M. 2009. Stitches in time. The World of Interiors, June, 100-105.

BROOKS, M. M. Bisso Marino Fili d’Oro dal Fondo del Mare / Muschelseide Goldene Fäden vom Meeresgrund Villa Ciani, Lugano, Switzerland 18 October 2008-1 March 2009. (Exhibition review.) Textile History, 40 (1), 118-122.

BROOKS, M.M. 2009. ‘My most treasured pieces’. Textiles from the Henry Ginsburg Collection, Temple Newsam House, Leeds, 25 November 2008-29 March 2009. [Exhibition Review.] Textile History, 40 (1), 126-127.

BROOKS, M.M. 2009. Courtauld History of Textiles and Dress (CHODA), Courtauld Institute of Art, London, 27–28 June 2008 [Conference Review.] Textile History, 40 (1), 113-114.

BROOKS, M. M. 2008. Santina M Levey: ‘The Embroideries at Hardwick Hall. A Catalogue.’ ( Review.) Textile History, 39 (2), 277-278.

BROOKS, M. M. 2008. ‘Mission Impossible. Ethics and Choices in Conservation.’ (Exhibition Review.) ICOM Task Force Newsletter, 2, [3-5].

BROOKS, M.M. 2008. Talking to ourselves. Why do conservators find it so hard to convince others of the significance of conservation? In: J. BRIDGLAND, ed. Preprints ICOM Committee for Conservation, 15^th Triennial Conference New Delhi, 22-26 September 2008. New Delhi: Allied Publishers, 1135-1140.

LENNARD, F. and BROOKS, M.M. 2008. Looking forward, looking back: Revisiting the development of interlinked conservation and curatorial Masters programmes – a further perspective. In: J.BRIDGLAND, ed. Preprints ICOM Committee for Conservation, 15^th Triennial Conference New Delhi, 22-26 September 2008. New Delhi: Allied Publishers, 109-115.

O’CONNOR, S., BROOKS, M. M., FAGAN, M. J. & BOURET, S. 2008. Innovation in the X-radiography of textiles: using computed tomography imaging techniques. In: J. BRIDGLAND, ed. Preprints ICOM Committee for Conservation, 15^th Triennial Conference New Delhi, 22-26 September 2008. New Delhi: Allied Publishers, 554-560.

BROOKS, M. M. and LENNARD, F. 2008. Looking forward, looking back: Revisiting the development of interlinked conservation and curatorial Masters programmes. In: T. RUUBEN, ed. Proceedings of the Interim Meeting ICOM Committee for Conservation Working Group Education & Training in Conservation. April 20-22, 2007, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Vantaa, Finland: ICOM Committee for Conservation Working Group Education & Training in Conservation, 35-40.

PYE, E. and BROOKS, M. M. 2008. External examining: exploring the benefits of integrated peer review for conservation masters programmes. In: T. RUUBEN, ed. Proceedings of the Interim Meeting ICOM Committee for Conservation Working Group Education & Training in Conservation. April 20-22, 2007, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Vantaa, Finland: ICOM CC Working Group Education & Training in Conservation, 11-18.

BROOKS, M.M. and RUMSEY, C. 2007. ‘Who knows the fate of his bones?’ Rethinking the body on display: object, art or human remains? In: S. J. KNELL, S. MACLEOD and S. WATSON, eds. Museum Revolutions: How Museums Change and are Changed. London & New York: Routledge, 343-354.

BROOKS, M.M. 2007. Recovering identity: the role of textual evidence in identifying forgotten Azlon fibres from the mid-20^th century. In: M. HAYWARD and E. KRAMER, eds. Textiles and Text: Re-establishing the Links Between Archival and Object-Based Research. Postprints of the Third AHRC Research Centre for Textile Conservation and Textile Studies Conference, 2006. London: Archetype, 29-33.

MORRIS, B. and BROOKS, M.M. 2007. Jewish ceremonial textiles and the Torah: exploring conservation practices in relation to ritual textiles associated with holy texts. In: M. HAYWARD and E. KRAMER, eds. Textiles and Text: Re-establishing the Links between Archival and Object-Based Research. Postprints of the Third AHRC Research Centre for Textile Conservation and Textile Studies Conference, 2006. London: Archetype, 244-248.

BROOKS, M. M. and EASTOP, D. 2007. Integration, curation and conservation – recent developments at the Textile Conservation Centre, UK. Context (Journal of the New Zealand Costume & Textile Section, Auckland Museum Institute), 13, 16-17.

BROOKS, M. M. 2007. ‘Balenciaga Paris’ and ‘Showtime. Le defile de Mode’. (Exhibition Review.) Textile History, 38 (1), 117-120.

O’CONNOR, S. A. and BROOKS, M. M. 2007. X-radiography of Textiles, Dress and Related Objects. Oxford: Elsevier.

BROOKS, M. M. and O’CONNOR, S. A. 2007. Looking into the past: the potential of X-radiography as an investigative technique for archaeological and ethnographic textiles. In: E.CORTES and THOMASSEN-KRAUSS, eds. Recovering the Past: The Conservation of Archaeological & Ethnographic Textiles. Preprints North American Textile Conservation Conference, Mexico, 9-11 November 2005. USA: North American Textile Conservation Conference, 87-97.

BROOKS, M. M. 2007. Valuing collections. (Book Review.) ICON News, 8, 41-43.

BROOKS, M. M. and ROSE, M. 2006. Contextualising textiles. Using documentary evidence to retrieve evidence for regenerated protein fibres. In: D. SAUNDERS, J. H. TOWNSEND and S. WOODCOCK, eds. The Object in Context: Crossing Conservation Boundaries. London: International Institute of Conservation, 82-88.

BROOKS, M. M. and EASTOP, D. 2006. Matter out of place: paradigms for analyzing textile cleaning. Journal of the American Institute of Conservation, 45 (3), 171-181.

BROOKS, M. M. and RUMSEY, C. 2006. The body in the museum. In: V.CASSMAN, N. ODEGAARD and J. POWELL, eds. Human Remains: A Guide for Conservators, Museums, Universities, and Law Enforcement Agencies. Lanham, MD: Altamira Press, 261-289.

BROOKS, M. M. 2006. Forgotten fibres? Issues in the collecting and conservation of regenerated protein fibres of forgotten fibres: The development, disappearance and rediscovery of regenerated protein fibres. In: C. ROGERSON and P. GARSIDE, eds. The Future of the Twentieth Century: Collecting, Interpreting and Conserving Modern Materials. AHRC Research Centre for Textile Conservation & Textiles Studies, Second Annual Conference. Textile Conservation Centre, 26-28 July 2005.London: Archetype, 33-40.

GARSIDE, P. and BROOKS, M. M. 2006. Probing the microstructures of protein and polyamide fibres. In: C ROGERSON and P. GARSIDE, eds. The Future of the Twentieth Century: Collecting, Interpreting and Conserving Modern Materials. AHRC Research Centre for Textile Conservation & Textiles Studies, Second Annual Conference. Textile Conservation Centre, 26-28 July 2005. London: Archetype, 67-71.

BROOKS, M. M. 2006. Fibres from soyabeans - their past, present and future. In: R.S. BLACKBURN and E. STARR, eds. Biodegradable and Sustainable Fibres. Cambridge: Woodhead Publishing, 369-440.

BROOKS, M. M. and O'CONNOR, S. A. 2005. Making the invisible visible: the potential of X-radiography as an investigative technique for textile conservation decision-making. In: I. VERGER, ed. Preprints ICOM Committee for Conservation 14th Triennial Meeting, The Hague 12-16 September 2005. London: James & James, 954-962

BROOKS, M. M. and O’CONNOR, S. A. 2005. New Insights into textiles: The potential of X-radiography as an investigative technique. In: R. JANAWAY and P. WYETH, eds.Scientific Analysis of Ancient & Historic Textiles. Informing Preservation, Display and Interpretation. Postprints, AHRB Research Centre for Textile Conservation & Textile Studies, Second Annual Conference. Textile Conservation Centre, 13-15 July 2004. London: Archetype Press, 168-176.

DOKOS, L. and BROOKS, M. M. 2005. Smart and techno fabrics: fundamental properties of new fibres and their future. V&A Conservation Journal, 51, 12-13.

BROOKS, M. M. and GARSIDE, P. 2005. Investigating the significance and characteristics of modern regenerated protein fibres. In: PARISI, C., BUZZANCA, G. and PARADISI, A., eds. Art ’05. Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Non-Destructive Investigations and Microanalysis for the Diagnostics and Conservation of the Cultural and Environmental Heritage. Lecce (Italy), 15-19 May 2005. (Italian Society for Non-Destructive Testing Monitoring Diagnostics, Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities, Central Institute of Restoration & Department of Materials Science, University of Lecce.) Lecce: University of Lecce, 1-14 (CD-Rom format).

BROOKS, M. M 2005. Forgotten fibres. New Boundaries, April, 1, 26-29.

BROOKS, M. M. and O’CONNOR, S. 2004. Revealing the hidden: the X-radiography of textiles. NPO Electronic Journal, November, 3pps (unpaginated).

BROOKS, M. M. and ZAGORSKA-THOMAS, N. 2004. ICOM Costume Committee Meeting 'Cross Roads of Fashion and Textiles in Poland'. The National Museum, Krakow,Poland, 28 September-3 October 2003. ICOM Committee for Conservation Textiles Working Group Newsletter, 20, 5-7.

BROOKS, M.M. 2004. English Embroideries of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries in the Collection of the Ashmolean Museum. Oxford & London: Ashmolean Museum / Jonathan Horne Publications.

BROOKS, M.M. 2003. 'Curious Works': English 16th and 17th century embroideries at the Ashmolean. The Ashmolean, 45, 8-10.

BROOKS, M.M. 2002. Embroidered Panel. (Catalogue entry.) In: S. J. SIMPSON, ed. Queen of Sheba. Treasures from Ancient Yemen. London: British Museum Press, 49.

BROOKS, M.M. 2002. 'Curious Works.’ English Seventeenth Century Embroideries at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. In: M. SCHOEFER-MASSON, ed. Preprints of the 4^thEhemaligentreffen der Abegg-Stiftung, 1-2 November 2002. Riggisberg: Abegg-Stiftung, 4pp (unpaginated).

BROOKS, M. M. 2002. A Chippendale bed cornice conserved. In: G. BEARD, ed. Country Houses and Collections. An Anthology. Clifford, W. Yorkshire: The Attingham Trust, 134-135.

BROOKS, M. M. 2002. Cultivating fibers from soybeans. News about Industrial Products made from Soybeans. 3 (8) (unpaginated). See http://www.unitedsoybean.org/lib

BROOKS, M.M. and FRANCOIS, S. 2002. Communication and technology: assessing the potential of distance learning experience in career entry and CPD in conservation education. In: R. VONTOBEL, ed. 13th Triennial Meeting Rio, Brazil September 2002. ICOM Committee for Conservation Preprints. London: James & James (Science Publishers), 125-131.

BROOKS, M.M. 2001. The landscape of language: representations of textiles. Writing about seventeenth century raised work embroidery. In: B. KING, J. HARRIS. J. HEELEY and M. MILLER, eds. Textiles: What is Critical? Papers presented at a Conference organised by the North West Textile Forum at Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, 29-30 September, 2000, 51-58.

Mary_M._Brooks_Publications.pdf

A summary of Mary M Brooks' doctoral research, 'Innovation, invention and failure: the case of regenerated protein fibres'