title: ATTRIBUTES OF AESTHETIC QUALITY USED BY TEXTILE CONSERVATORS IN EVALUATING CONSERVATION INTERVENTIONS ON MUSEUM COSTUMES.
abstract: Aesthetic quality is central to textile conservators when evaluating a conservation method. However, the literature on textile conservation chiefly focuses on physical properties, and little is known about what factors determine aesthetic quality according to textile conservators. The latter was explored through two experiments. Experiment 1 explored the underlying attributes of aesthetic quality of textile conservation interventions. Experiment 2 explored the relationships between these attributes and how well they predicted aesthetic quality. Rank-order correlation analyses revealed two latent factors called Coherence and Completeness. Ordinal regression analysis revealed that Coherence was the most important predictor of aesthetic quality. This means that a successful conservation intervention is visually well-integrated with the textile item in terms of the material and method.
authors.affiliation: 1 Department of Conservation, University of Gothenburg and Department of the Collections, The Royal Armory and Skokloster Castle with The Hallwyl Museum Foundation, Stockholm, Sweden.
authors.forename: Johanna
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Nilsson
authors.affiliation: 2 Gösta Ekman Laboratory, Department of Psychology, Stockholm University.
authors.forename: Östen
authors.initials: Ö
authors.lastname: Axelsson
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D004954:Esthetics / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009144:Museums; D013784:Textiles / Q000592:standards*; D014796:Visual Perception / Q000502:physiology*