‘I Don’t Want Bullumwaal to be Forgotten’: How the Community Led the Conservation of a 1897 Stage Curtain in Bullumwaal (East Gippsland, Australia)

Figures & data

Figure 1. Location of Bullumwaal. MapData © 2023 Google.

Figure 2. (a) Detail of tear on the lower right corner. (b) Detail of top left corner with fading and stains. (c) Detail of upper left part with extensive fading, and letters masked by wooden batten. (d) Curtain unrolled before conservation treatment, note extensive fading on both sides, images S Cotte and S Vardy.

Figure 3. New hanging system, with curtain and veil sandwiched, rolled and fixed between aluminium battens, and the supporting rings on the side, image S Cotte.

Figure 4. Peter van Diesen, Sabine Cotte, Nadine Fleischer, Phil Large and Kevin Fleischer installing the hanging system, image S Vardy

Figure 5. Peter van Diesen, Phil Large and Kevin Fleischer unrolling the curtain protected by its veil. Note the upper rings pivoted to the sides to allow unrolling, image S Cotte.

Table 1. Timeline of the Bullumwaal curtain conservation project.

Table 2. Timeline of the treatment with the tasks of each participant outlined in different colours.

Figure 6. Curtain after conservation, image S Cotte.