Deirdre Windsor is an independent textile conservator, Principal of Windsor Conservation in Dover, Massachusetts where she has worked on the conservation of textiles and fashion arts since 2002. She was formerly the Director and Chief Conservator of the Textile Conservation Center, at the American Textile History Museum in Lowell, Massachusetts. She holds a BFA in Textile Design from the Rhode Island School of Design. She trained in textile conservation at the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Institute of Archaeology in London. In 2001, Windsor was awarded the Rome Prize in Historic Preservation and Conservation, a fellowship funded by the National Endowment for the Arts at the American Academy in Rome. She has published papers on the conservation and display of textiles for the American Institute of Conservation and the International Committee of Museums Conservation Committee Textiles Working Group and has lectured widely on special projects in the New England region. She has worked as a conservator providing comprehensive textile and costume conservation services including treatment, on-site installations, collection surveys, consultation on archival storage on collections care for museums, corporate and private collectors for 25 years. Her special interest and experience in the technical challenges faced in engineering mount systems for textiles is the aspect of her work that brings her to this conference.