Hi,
Just my 2 cents, i know that the National Museum, Denmark, has their own
cleaning departure, they dry clean their own stuff, and they also take
comissions, only it is quite expensive. I know this because the academy of
Historical Hairstyles, was payed for one of their catwalks at the National
Museum, with cleaning a dress for them.
When i worked at the Museum of Decorative arts, they asked me to clean a
full bustledress. I was send to town to buy lots of cleaning petrol, and the
whole dress was dipped into a bath of this. Worked very well. I did it
outside, and the rest of the petrol i was told should just stand outside, so
that it could evaporate.
Perhaps you could do that two, if you have a zink large enough, and can do
it outside..
Bjarne
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I've found places that do it by mail, I just was hoping for a local one.
It's really not an unusual process. Museums, antique textile and clothing
collectors, and the better vintage clothing stores frequently send antique
garments to be hand dry cleaned, since they will not withstand the
agitation of machine cleaning. I've been sending stuff out for this
process for decades. It's just that dry cleaners tend not to find the
museum, etc. business as lucrative as machine dry cleaning for the
neighborhood. One dry cleaner I used to use went out of business and the
other says they no longer offer this service.
My next step will be to contact the deYoung Museum and ask who they use
for their collection, or perhaps to send to a place I found in New York.
Government regulations or not, I don't think every museum in the country
is going to have to start sending all those 18th-century and 19th-century
garments out to the neighborhood bulk dry cleaner.
Thanks,
Fran
Leah L Watts wrote:
With regular dry cleaning they put the garment or textile into a machine
and agitate it, which stresses it much more than hand dry cleaning,
which seems similar to flat washing where you sponge the soap through the
cloth.
And given the government restrictions on dry cleaning solvent, I think
you're going to have problems finding someone who can do this, ESPECIALLY
in California. The only thing I can think of would be to contact some of
the industry associations (such as the International Fabricare Institute,
http://www.ifi.org/) and see if they have anyone they can recommend. Or
see if there's someone using alternative solvents in your area -- I
believe the liquid CO2 method requires a pressurized machine, so wouldn't
work for you, but I don't know about Rynex or GreenEarth.
Leah
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