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Sent: Sunday, March 05, 2006 12:21 PM
To: Historical Costume
Subject: RE: [h-cost] abuse of fabrics (aka care and washing) question
At 10:40 AM -0600 3/5/06, Betsy Marshall wrote:
My information is that dry cleaning helps
At 10:40 AM -0600 3/5/06, Betsy Marshall wrote:
My information is that dry cleaning helps preserve the fabric treatments
used by the manufacturer- either fabric or clothing processes; so fabric of
wool, linen, silk or combinations thereof, _can_ be washed, just be prepared
for the
On Sun, 5 Mar 2006, Kahlara wrote:
Can someone point me in the right direction for info/resources on best
washing methods fof various natural fabrics, especially linen and
wool. I know that many of my off the rack 'modern' clothes specify dry
cleaning, but if I were to wash my linen and wool
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From: Lloyd Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Historical Costume [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, March 05, 2006 6:52 AM
Subject: Re: [h-cost] abuse of fabrics (aka care and washing) question
It has been my experience that much of the clothing bought today is
labeled
'dry
Hi Anette,
When i made my shirt in the fine linnen, i machine washed it before and used
a high temperature. Then the linnen will shrink nicely and the shirt will
never shrink any more.
Because i have edged the shirt with fine cotton laces, i only handwash it
now, but it works fine to pre wash
My information is that dry cleaning helps preserve the fabric treatments
used by the manufacturer- either fabric or clothing processes; so fabric of
wool, linen, silk or combinations thereof, _can_ be washed, just be prepared
for the size/hand/texture to change. (Personally I toss it all in the
One tip, especially for linen - take your yardage and zigzag the two raw
edges together, into a loop, before you wash it. It's the quickest,
simplest way to make sure you don't come out with a spaghetti bundle of
frayed threads.
Jean
Kahlara [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
Can someone point me in
If you really want to know about properties and care of various fabrics,
get
a college textiles textbook. It will have all the technical details. You
could look for a used one on alibris or abebooks.
I took a Textile class in graduate school. Everything you wanted to know
about fabric! Great
Denise wrote:
I took a Textile class in graduate school. Everything you wanted to know
about fabric! Great class. The text we used was _Textiles_ (eighth edition)
by Sara J. Kadolph and Anna L. Langford. I'm sure there are lots of copies
floating around in bookstores or on the internet. I think
, 2006 12:46 PM
Subject: RE: [h-cost] abuse of fabrics (aka care and washing) question
If you really want to know about properties and care of various fabrics,
get
a college textiles textbook. It will have all the technical details. You
could look for a used one on alibris or abebooks. You don't
no problem at all with washing pure linen - reacts a lot like an untreated
cotton - as long as you pre shrink it (washing machine, hottest setting) it'll
be pretty much fine in normal washes.
obviously depends on the looseness of the weave, etc, (if a very loose weave,
it may need shrinking
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