I've cleaned antique lace and doilies with Didi7 and Oxyclean. Start mild. You can always add more. You never can tell when to much is used until it messes up the lace.
Sincerely, Rebecca Rautine > Date: Sat, 7 Mar 2009 10:06:09 -0800 > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [h-cost] Browned lace Edwardian? Collars > > > > Wanda Pease wrote: > <snip> > > > > Being totally ignorant about lace... were they ever supposed to be white? > > The most beautiful three are ecru (?) or a coffee with lots of cream shade. > > Quite possibly not. The late Victorians and Edwardians very much liked > "antique-looking" ecru and cream shades for lace. If you hand wash the > lace in a gentle soap solution, what comes off is probably dirt and what > remains is probably dye of some sort (coffee was sometimes used, among > other things). > > Fran > Lavolta Press > New book on 1820s clothing! > http://www.lavoltapress.com > _______________________________________________ > h-costume mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume _________________________________________________________________ Windows Live™: Life without walls. http://windowslive.com/explore?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_allup_1a_explore_032009 _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
