Oh, boyohboy, does that ever make me wince in sympathy! About a decade ago, I had something similar happen, involving an embroidered linen coif. The embroidery was done in red silk, and about the 5th time it got washed (in Woolite...yes, I know better now), the dye in the silk cut loose and turned the entire thing a spotty pink mess. I was horrified, and couldn't even bleach it because of the embroidery. What worked for me was a recommendation from a lady who owns a lot of unusual textiles. There's a fairly common laundry treatment called "Biz" that you dissolve in hot water and use to soak your items. I put my poor coif through two separate soaks, and a good wash, and it's almost 100% clear of the pink stain. I think there's also something called synthropol? that Dharma Trading sells for use in dyeing fabrics. I think it's good for removing vagrant dyes, so you might try that, as well.... Good luck! --Sue
----- Original Message ----- From: "Joy Shillaker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2006 1:29 AM Subject: [h-cost] Disaster! > Hello, > > can anyone offer any advice please, I'm desperate! > > I made a set of swaddling clothes, biggin, coif, forehead cloths, shirt, 4 > 12ft long swaddling bands, tail clouts, belly band etc. etc.all from > beautiful old french linen, fully hand stitched. I've been boiling them up > regularly with home made soap to soften the linen, it's been working really > well. > > When I stayed with a friend who was going to photograph the set for me she > put the clothes into her machine for a boil. Unfortunately she had > previously been felting some red wool fabric in the machine and now I have a > set of pink baby linen. I've tried the Dylon dye remover and chlorine bleach > and it's not made any difference. > > Avice to remove the colour (or evidence of pink baby linen!) would be > gratefully recieved. > > I know in the great scheme of things there are worse things that could > happen, but last night I started to cut out a new set of clothes and ended > up in floods of tears. My partner has said we can still photograph the > clothing and he can use the computer to make the clothing look the right > colour but I've spent three years researching and making this project, was > hoping to start school presentations in September. > > Thanks for listening. > > regards > > Joy Shillaker _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
