Acknowledgements
With thanks to Dinah Eastop for suggesting the idea of creating a word cloud.
Mary M. Brooks trained as a textile conservator at the Textile Conservation Centre when it was at Hampton Court Palace, after having worked in the book world and management consultancy. Following an internship at the Abegg-Stiftung, Berne, Switzerland, she worked at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and York Castle Museum where she jointly curated ‘Stop the Rot’, which won the first International Institute of Conservation (IIC) Keck Award for promoting public awareness of conservation. Brooks is an Accredited Conservator/Restorer and was elected a Fellow of IIC in 1994. She is a Governor of the Pasold Research Fund and was joint editor of Textile History from 2009 to 2015 and is now a member of the Editorial Board. She currently works at Durham University.