In a message dated 7/11/2005 8:44:09 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I wash my cotton velveteens and cotton velvets all the time. Why? I used to get [when I lived in Greensboro, NC] heavy cotton velvet "scraps" free from a company called SECCOA [it's an anagram for....something] that makes theatre curtains and "blacks". Since the lengths used to make the curtains are the height of whatever proscenium they are to decorate, if there was a flaw in the fabrics say 6 yards into a 10 yard piece for a 30' proscenium, that piece would get cut off and become a 6 yard scrap!!!! I'd go get lengths of 4 to 6 yards usually. "Thank goodness we don't have to lug them to the dumpster" the girls would say as I came to haul these enormous scraps off. Anyway, I'd always wash the heavy velvet. It got out a salt treatment put in the fabric to make it fire proof and the nap would fluff up beautifully. It's the kind of velvet whose color changes an entire shade from nap up to nap down. [Many rayon velvets don't seem to do this.] Better cut everything out in one direction! I had a steamer to "iron" the velvet. I might wash a rayon velvet to fluff it up. But thank god for the steamer! _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
