Take your Hobby into New and Greater Heights!
Start by collecting and preserving Family heirlooms so you and your descendants can use and enjoy them to connect with your family history.
Collect documents that stir up your imagination and bring back fond memories of the past.
Search and preserve your stacks of precious family mementos such as birth or marriage certificates, certificates of awards and recognitions, certificate of first communion, diplomas, engagement or wedding announcements, clippings of published articles or write-ups, diaries, autographs and letters.
Relive the elegance of yesteryear’s by collecting and preserving assortment of family quilts, costumes with trinkets and accessories and heaps of unique clothes, suits, uniforms, Jewelry, hats, gloves and handbags.
When preserving your family heirlooms, protect them from threats such as acidic materials, bugs, improper handling and storage, then follow the guidelines:
Paper
- Unfold or unroll paper documents to eliminate creases which may damage the fibers of your paper heirlooms.
- Protect your papers from the acids in your storage area. If your paper documents are already brown and brittle. You can prevent further damage by keeping the document away from other papers and preserving the information on it(photocopy it onto archival papers).
Textiles
- Clean textiles with vacuum cleaners, instead of using dry cleaning chemicals which may harm the fibers.
- Protect Textiles from pests such as moths, bugs, carpet beetles and mice.