My mom was visiting me recently and showed me some tricks for starching
fancy doilies that might help. She said use Stayflo liquid starch, blue
bottle. Make sure to cut the starch in half with water. Soak the fabric or
doilies in the solution. I pinned the doilies to a foam core board with
T
dress.
Bjarne
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From: "Anne Moeller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "'Historical Costume'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, March 12, 2006 8:49 PM
Subject: RE: [h-cost] starching ruffs
And even worse, it collapsed few weeks later
>And even worse, it collapsed few weeks later while exhibited in a cold damp
>room of an old manor house.
What a shame. All that work for naught. Did you get a picture before it
"melted"?
Anne
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Hi,
I made one of those big mill stone ruffs years back, but that was before i
had the pleassure of being educated by all the knolledged people on this
list. I cut it in the theater cut, with large cirkles with a hole in the
middle for the neck.
I sewed together all the cirkles 6 in all first,
