Renaissance Costuming for Men, with random musings on other historical costuming topics.
Showing posts with label fabric care. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fabric care. Show all posts
Sunday, March 4, 2012
Preview - Tomorrow
Tomorrow we Cut Fabric so you can get a head start by pre-washing anything that you intend to wash as a garment. For me that generally means washing everything but silk, in cold or warm water gently. For linen and cotton warm and dry hot. I want them to shrink as much as then are going to, before the garment is made. For wool I wash in cold with a bit of baby shampoo and dry gently. I don't want to raise that much of the nap, unless I am going for the peasant look, in which case wash warm and dry hot. Buy extra if you are going to do this as you will loose about a 1/4 yard for every two yards in length.
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