If the furniture has a delicate surface such as textiles, leather, metal, painted or gilded surfaces, we protect the surface with white acid free tissue paper before we place the dust cover over it. For delicate objects suchas ceramics, mantel clocks and metal figurines we make a rectangular acid free tissue paper 'hat', which sits over the top of the object.
A history of sleeping houses
This act of putting the house to bed has a tradition going back long before the conservation practices of period houses today. Traditional period houses were ‘put to bed’ by the servants of the family when the family was not in residence. In the case of the Legh family, they would spend the time in London or at one of their other houses in Lancashire.