Sorry to wait this long with an answard, when you mean to clean them, is it to get them white? if so it can't be done les an expert to do it, if they are very old they will be yellowich, becourse of that time they couldn't get the bone realy white, so with the time the tallow that is in the tiny pores in the bone will turn the fan yellowish, to remowe the leaf I carefully would do this with a racerblade, but to night I am going to a bone and horn class, I will get some more information to you about the cleaning Dorte, from a windy colder wether http://www.f2.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/dorte_zielke/my_photos ----- Original Message ----- From: "peter greenway" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 2004 8:13 PM Subject: [lace] Fan Sticks
> Dear Lacers, > I have found some very old fan sticks - the leaf has fallen to pieces, so I > want to clean the guards and sticks which appear to be made of ivory or bone > (not wood) to use again - any ideas about how to clean them, also how to > remove scraps of leaf still sticking to the sticks. > Many thanks for your help > Kind regards > Margaret Greenway > > - > To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: > unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
