Our Team

Museum Textile Services, LLC, was founded by Camille Myers Breeze in 1999. We are located in the historic Ballardvale section of Andover, Massachusetts. Once a center of textile manufacturing, the first worsted wool in America, as well as the first wool flannel, were made in our small neighborhood. We are proud to once again be making textile history in Ballardvale. 

Camille Myers Breeze
Director & Chief Conservator

Camille Myers Breeze
Camille Myers Breeze began her conservation career in 1989 at the Textile Conservation Workshop in South Salem, New York. After earning a BA in Art History from Oberlin College, Camille received an MA in Museum Studies: Costume and Textiles Conservation from the Fashion Institute of Technology. She spent five years in the Textile Conservation Laboratory at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City before moving to the Textile Conservation Center at the American Textile History Museum, in Lowell, Massachusetts. Camille founded Museum Textile Services in 1999 as a full-service textile conservation studio serving museums, historical societies, and private collectors. Museum Textile Services conservation and exhibition collaborations have received awards from the AAM, AASLH, NEMA, and Maine Preservation. In 2015 she co-founded the Andover Figures® line of custom museum forms for conservators and collections specialists.
 
Camille is a Fellow of the AIC; she is currently the Chair of the Ethics and Standards Committee, and a member of the Latin American Scholarship Committee. Camille is also the co-chair of the Conservation affinity group of the New England Museum Association, where she was previously a NEMA Independent Museum Professional Co-Chair. She also served on the board of the New England Conservation Association from 2005 to 2011. Camille is an instructor at the Center for Collections Care at Beloit College. She has taught elsewhere in the United States, the Dominican Republic, and Peru. In 2009, Camille received a grant from the U.S. Department of State to consult with museums in the Dominican Republic on issues of textile conservation.

​An author of numerous journal articles, Camille published A Survey of American Tapestry Conservation Techniques in 1999, and wrote a chapter in the award-winning 2013 catalog Picturing Enlightenment: Tibetan Tangkas in the Mead Art Museum at Amherst College. She is collaborating on a forthcoming book about textiles at the Peruvian site of Huaca Malena. Curriculum Vitae.

Samantha Hann
Studio Manager

Samantha Hann joined Museum Textile Services in 2019 as an intern and has been the Studio Manager for three years. She earned her BA in Chemistry and Visual Arts, with a minor in Art History, from Roger Williams University. Before coming to MTS, she was the Museum Experience Coordinator at the Newport Art Museum, where she initiated procedural upgrades and developed her excellent customer service skills. Samantha manages the business and client-relations side of MTS, as well as providing project management and conservation treatment assistance. In her free time, Samantha enjoys cross-stitching and nesting in her new home.

Rebecca Helgeson
Conservation Assistant

Rebecca Helgeson completed a Museum Studies Masters at Harvard University in May of 2020. She began working part-time at MTS in 2018, contributing to several major projects both in the studio and off-site. Rebecca has recently returned as a vital part of the conservation staff, using her excellent sewing skills to assist on projects for private and institutional clients. Rebecca is also the Collections Manager at the Framingham History Center, where she oversees care, storage, exhibitions, and access to their collection, located in three historic buildings. Rebecca runs a small upholstery business out of her home in Jamaica Plain. 

Former Staff & Interns

Here are some of the amazing people we've had the honor of working with. If you're interested in working with Museum Textile Services, click here to read about our Internship Program.