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How to Get Rid of Moths––Best Practices
HOW TO GET RID OF MOTHS: Top Ten Tips to Deal with a Moth Infestation A comprehensive review of textile conservation methods to prevent moth infestations and to manage the...
How to Get Rid of Moths––Best Practices
HOW TO GET RID OF MOTHS: Top Ten Tips to Deal with a Moth Infestation A comprehensive review of textile conservation methods to prevent moth infestations and to manage the...

How to Care for Your Shoes––Ten Smart Tips
Your Shoes Take a Great Deal of Wear and Tear––Ten Important Tips for Shoe Care Shoes will last for years if you keep them well cleaned (polished or brushed) and...
How to Care for Your Shoes––Ten Smart Tips
Your Shoes Take a Great Deal of Wear and Tear––Ten Important Tips for Shoe Care Shoes will last for years if you keep them well cleaned (polished or brushed) and...

Talented Experts & Valued Resources
Discover the most talented experts––conservators and others who can give you the best advice regarding clothing restoration, protecting antique furniture and more......
Talented Experts & Valued Resources
Discover the most talented experts––conservators and others who can give you the best advice regarding clothing restoration, protecting antique furniture and more......

The English Butler's Traditions
English Butlers and Housekeepers invented many of the techniques used in museum conservation today. Read about their role in maintaining the grand, stately homes in England preserving and protecting extraordinary...
The English Butler's Traditions
English Butlers and Housekeepers invented many of the techniques used in museum conservation today. Read about their role in maintaining the grand, stately homes in England preserving and protecting extraordinary...

How to Use a Clothes Brush and Cut Dry Cleaning...
Step-by-step directions from an experience English Butler, Mr. Stanley Ager. Using a clothes brush helps you cut dry cleaning bills and extends the life of the fabric. Read more here...
How to Use a Clothes Brush and Cut Dry Cleaning...
Step-by-step directions from an experience English Butler, Mr. Stanley Ager. Using a clothes brush helps you cut dry cleaning bills and extends the life of the fabric. Read more here...

How to Protect Your Fine Furniture
Upholstered furniture is subject to many elements--layers of dust, hot sunlight beating down on fabrics, animals relaxing and children of a certain age leaving fingermarks or worse. Here is a...
How to Protect Your Fine Furniture
Upholstered furniture is subject to many elements--layers of dust, hot sunlight beating down on fabrics, animals relaxing and children of a certain age leaving fingermarks or worse. Here is a...

How to Preserve and Protect Your Wardrobe
Your wardrobe is valuable and an investment. Learn more here about the day to day care of your best clothing by reading more here.....
How to Preserve and Protect Your Wardrobe
Your wardrobe is valuable and an investment. Learn more here about the day to day care of your best clothing by reading more here.....

How to Care for Fine Linens and Tablecloths
On special occasions, everyone uses the very best table linens. Some linens are newly purchased. Others have deep sentimental value as family heirlooms. After the holiday dinner or special party...
How to Care for Fine Linens and Tablecloths
On special occasions, everyone uses the very best table linens. Some linens are newly purchased. Others have deep sentimental value as family heirlooms. After the holiday dinner or special party...

How to Care for and Store Equestrian Clothing
Riding clothes are handsome and represent a serious investment. Here is a brief guide showing how to keep them clean and well protected between fox hunts and other activities.
How to Care for and Store Equestrian Clothing
Riding clothes are handsome and represent a serious investment. Here is a brief guide showing how to keep them clean and well protected between fox hunts and other activities.

To The Manor Born: The Butler's Closet––a Great...
Julie Carlson––the talented Editor-in-Chief of Remodelista––discovered The Butler's Closet and wrote a wonderful article. You can read it here.
To The Manor Born: The Butler's Closet––a Great...
Julie Carlson––the talented Editor-in-Chief of Remodelista––discovered The Butler's Closet and wrote a wonderful article. You can read it here.
Protecting Upholstered Furniture from Sun Damage
The sun is powerful and very damaging. Read how one couple solves the problem in a Hamptons' living room flooded with sun.....
Protecting Upholstered Furniture from Sun Damage
The sun is powerful and very damaging. Read how one couple solves the problem in a Hamptons' living room flooded with sun.....

How to Polish Wood Furniture Using Christophe P...
Christophe Pourny's furniture polishes are fantastic. Read more to see a step by step demonstration of the Furniture Tonic applied to a beautiful French walnut table. Before and After photographs.
How to Polish Wood Furniture Using Christophe P...
Christophe Pourny's furniture polishes are fantastic. Read more to see a step by step demonstration of the Furniture Tonic applied to a beautiful French walnut table. Before and After photographs.