My first teacher advised taking a paper towel, wetting it, wringing it out and sort of arranging it in a three dimensional shape with lots of surfaces, under the cover cloth which is held up with pins. This creates sort of a vapor chamber that is not air tight and that does not have the damp towel directly in contact with threads or pricking. You leave it that way over night. Another teacher that I had like to place a more absorptive disposable towel product, (handi wipes?) under the area where the threads were diagonally suspended in air going from the bobbins laid flat on the apron of a roller pillow to the elevated roller. The advantage of this was that the towel could provide a constant low humidity drifting up to the threads while you were working. When not following this advice, and instead trying more heavy handed methods, I have experienced the color transferring from an orange cardboard pricking and also mustiness and discoloration. So, extreme moderation is now my watchword. One teacher advised taking the pillow into the bathroom and running the shower or hot water to create a high humidity situation and leaving it there for a few hours. I have tried this, but I think it might be deleterious to the pillow as a whole. Devon
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