Mantle restored

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THE Andalucian Institute of Historical Heritage (IPAH) has completed the restoration work on the mantle of the Coronation of the Virgin.

The Director of the IAPH, Aranzazu Martin, has revealed that “thanks to the research and work carried out by Historical Heritage, the origin of the cloak has been determined to the year 1862 or 1863.

“It has also been discovered the mantle was made in Madrid by one of Queen Elizabeth II’s renowned chamber embroiderers in the embroidery workshop of Puerta del Sol.”

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The work to recover the cloak has focused on cleaning the velvet and the embroideries and the fastening of the metallic threads of this piece.

For its restoration, the embroidery has been cleaned by combining retention methods, with materials that absorb dirt without leaving traces on the surface, and laser ablation methods, by means of irradiation with light pulses of a certain intensity in those areas affected by this type of dirt.