for crisp washed linen
Jul. 7th, 2007 02:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
anotheranon1. Wash on your machine's hot/heavy cycle and dry on the hot/long cycle. Seriously, boil and cook it if you possibly can for maximum shrinkage.
2. When dry, finish the raw edges so they won't keep raveling. Use a serger if you've got it, but I imagine a zig-zag stitch will do pretty well.
3. Wash and dry again, same settings.
4. Wash again as before, and then take the damp cloth and freeze it.
5. Yes, I said freeze it! Put it in an unprinted paper or plastic bag and put it in the freezer. Freeze solid.
6. Take out frozen fabric and iron until flat - depending on the length involved, this could take hours so don't start unless you have a hope of finishing in one session.
It could be my imagination or wishful thinking, but this seems to result in fabric that is both soft enough to consider wearing but crisp enough to lay out properly.
I think I got the idea from an h-costume post years ago.
2. When dry, finish the raw edges so they won't keep raveling. Use a serger if you've got it, but I imagine a zig-zag stitch will do pretty well.
3. Wash and dry again, same settings.
4. Wash again as before, and then take the damp cloth and freeze it.
5. Yes, I said freeze it! Put it in an unprinted paper or plastic bag and put it in the freezer. Freeze solid.
6. Take out frozen fabric and iron until flat - depending on the length involved, this could take hours so don't start unless you have a hope of finishing in one session.
It could be my imagination or wishful thinking, but this seems to result in fabric that is both soft enough to consider wearing but crisp enough to lay out properly.
I think I got the idea from an h-costume post years ago.
