Hello Vila and everyone In answer to your question, no, not a common practice. An option that is effective for appearance especially for lace made with linen thread, is cold-pressing the lace when it is removed from the pillow. Laces in cotton can also be treated in this way. It depends on whether a person wants the lace to look flatted. I do not know if the effect is reversible though.
You could try this with your washed lace, wet it again, repin it to the shape of the pricking, when damp-dry roll something smooth and heavy-ish over it (a marble rolling pin is good, and I've used a glass jar). Linen responds to pressure by developing a pleasing sheen which you probably know from weaving. On 9/12/11, vila <[email protected]> wrote: > > Is it a common practice to wash a finished piece of lace or not? I can see > some things never being washed, but other will probably need to be washed > sooner or later. -- Bev in Shirley BC, near Sooke on beautiful Vancouver Island, west coast of Canada - To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [email protected]. For help, write to [email protected]. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003
