Dear all I'd just like to say thank you for all the helpful responses I received to my enquiry yesterday. Many people provided some extremely useful, practical advice on how to package such items which I have taken on board when choosing what equipment and materials to order. If anyone else is interested in this area, then a very useful link was provided to me which may be of help to others: http://www.collectionslink.org.uk/subjects/textiles/493-an-illustrated-guide-to-the-care-of-costume-and-textile-collections. With best wishes, Mary Ann Mary Ann Davison College Archivist and Records Manager Royal Northern College of Music 124 Oxford Road Manchester M13 9RD T 0161 9075211 www.archives.rncm.ac.uk Twitter: @rncmarchives Blog: http://rncm-archives.posterous.com Contact the list owner for assistance at [log in to unmask] For information about joining, leaving and suspending mail (eg during a holiday) see the list website at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=archives-nra