Can working together with your fingers enhance your temper? For Kisook Suh, a textile conservator at The Met, there’s deep satisfaction and objective in caring for tapestries which might be lots of of years previous. However her artistry doesn’t cease there: as soon as dwelling, she relaxes by mending holes in her younger son’s blue denims and rescuing garments that in any other case could be discarded. Kisook describes the solace present in repairing issues—sew by sew—and the way the method itself fosters hope for different kinds of therapeutic, whether or not damaged relationships or her mom’s sick well being in Korea.

Visitor: Kisook Suh, conservator, Textile Conservation, The Metropolitan Museum of Artwork

Featured object: The Falcon’s Bath, 1495-1505. South Netherlandish. Tapestry with wool warp and wool wefts, 137 1/2 x 145 1/2 in. (349.3 x 369.6 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Artwork, New York, The Cloisters Assortment, 2011, (2011.93)

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