Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 2, Number 9, 1 September 1985 — Needlecraft Help Needed — [ARTICLE]

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Needlecraft Help Needed —

The Pacific Regional Conservation Center of Bishop Museum needs you if you are talented with a needle and thread.

In anticipatior, of the Chinese bicentennial in 1989, the Museum is restoring a number of objects, among them two Chinese silk opera cos-

tumes in need of hundreds of hours of sewing to align and reattach thousands of gold and silver threads. Volunteers will have principles of textile conservation

for the costumes demon strated and explained to them by professional eon servation staff. Call 847-3511, extension 112, for full particulars.