I have had good luck soaking all night in Biz.
Ann Wass
-Original Message-
From: Marjorie Wilser the3t...@gmail.com
To: Historical Costume h-cost...@indra.com
Sent: Sun, Jun 16, 2013 1:29 am
Subject: Re: [h-cost] stains on stored linen?
For fruit stains, like that of the raspberry,
since I'm also washing a separate load of dark red theater curtain velvet, that
does sort of make me wonder if there were miniscule tufts of velvet left in the
machine when I washed the linen stuff originally (out-sizing first wash) --
bleedy red velvet tufts?
the bra was left for quite a
The pink stains that turned blue did so because of the pH of the soap--acid
vs. alkaline.
Try soaking/scrubbing by hand with Spray and Wash, or Zout or one of those
stain remover products. Let it line dry, so as not to set the stains in the
heat of the dryer. Or make a paste of Oxy-Clean powder
Wow, that's fascinating! She did know exactly what she wanted. 20 pounds
was an enormous price at the time, something like $320, I think, before
inflation.
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Happy sewing,
Deb Salisbury
The Mantua-Maker
Quality Historical Sewing Patterns
www.mantua-maker.com
Hello, gang.
During
Have just had real good luck with that with a cotton bra that got a
raspberry down it all day 8-)...
She wore a raspberry buh-ra... ;)
For the stained linen, I heartily recommend a product called Soilove. My
mother-in-law turned me on to it. It's great stuff! I recently used it to take
out
Thanks for the info, really interesting.
Katy
On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 6:39 PM, Michelle Plumb mpl...@wideopenwest.comwrote:
Hello, gang.
During my nightly reading I discovered this snippet about a clothing order
sent to London, placed by a well-to-do Virginia planter's wife in 1759:
Not for nothing did George Washington marry the richest widow in Virginia!
Ann Wass
-Original Message-
From: Deb Salisbury, Mantua-Maker d...@mantua-maker.com
To: h-costume h-cost...@indra.com
Sent: Sun, Jun 16, 2013 3:06 pm
Subject: Re: [h-cost] Clothing order sent to London from
Deb Salisbury wrote:
Wow, that's fascinating! She did know exactly what she wanted. 20
pounds was an enormous price at the time, something like $320, I think,
before inflation.
--
Wowzers, that WAS a pricey order!
The book I'm reading is Volume 3 of a 7-volume
