I stopped, arrested by the clean lines, the faded velvet material, the curving wooden legs.
Be wary of buying already faded looking material, as it's probably the result of a bad dye job rather than a lot of love by a previous owner.
The large square of silk net edged in pale satin ribbon was improperly stored and had faded, but the material had not deteriorated.
Specifically, two networks said that their interest in the material faded as soon as they learned that one of the intermediaries in the negotiations was F. Marc Schaffel.
Examples from applications of PRISMS to wall paintings at a UNESCO site in the Gobi desert are presented to demonstrate the potential of the instrument for large scale 3D spectral imaging, revealing faded writing and material identification.
Memories of the Lebanese Rocket Society quickly faded and archive material was lost during the country's civil war.
All material objects age, so that often what you see in a museum bears little resemblance to what came out of the artist's studio: paper and silk discolor and turn brittle; painted surfaces crack and pigments darken or fade; even materials as durable as marble and bronze will change color and texture after prolonged contact with the elements.
When he decided the audience was ready for Apocalypse Now Redux, he called me to say: "Vittorio, we need to duplicate the original". I started my tests and I discovered that, after 27 years, the original material had faded.
The palette of the earlier painters was, in general, stable to light; however, some of the pigments used, notably the "lakes," which consisted of vegetable dyestuffs mordanted onto translucent inert materials, often faded easily.
They soon turned a building that was fading both in material terms and in its cultural relevance into a place of engagement, immersion, healing and sharing.
