Are you going to throw the jacket in the wash once it's made? That's usually
my idea when working with any fabric. If I want to wash the garment in a
machine once it's made, I wash the material in Hot water and dry in the
dryer (unless I'm fulling cloth for an 18thC coat, then I full properly, not
in the dryer).
Wool is wonderful to work with, take a small piece of it and play with it
before you sew your garment. It will streatch and shrink under steam and
heat, it will go whereever you tell it to. Play with it first, then you'll
get the feel of it!
Kelly
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Subject: [h-cost] Wool
I'm in the planning stages of what will be my first ever wool garment. Is
there anything I need to know about sewing with it? Do any of you guys
pre-wash wool? It's a gabardine fabric, which I know isn't terribly
period, but it's what I could afford, and I'm making my late-17th-century
pirate coat out of it.
Thanks for any advice you can give me. Being from South Texas originally,
wool was excluded from my sewing education. :)
Tea Rose
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