Sounds like it would be gorgeous just the color it is. Wear it outdoors for a few weekends and it may well start to fade. (Blues these days seem to be expecially unstable.)
I'm just afraid that efforts to lighten it will end up giving you something that looks like blue-jean denim. And that's not an elizabethan look. MaggiRos --- Dawn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've got a very dark blue linen that I'd like to > make a 16th century > dress out of. However, it's very very dark, nearly > black, and I'd like > to lighten it a bit. Fade it, even. > > I washed a test piece and some color came out in the > water, but did not > noticeably lighten the fabric. I think this was > excess dye. > > I soaked a test piece in a very weak bleach solution > and the fabric > turned a chocolate brown color. Nice, but not what I > wanted. And even > then, it has dark blue dye spots all over it. > > I suspect that dye remover will get me the same > result. > Vikings? What Vikings? We are but poor, simple farmers. The village was burning when we got here. Anon. _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
