Thursday, April 24, 2008

How to Clean or Brighten Antique and Vintage Linens

I found information for cleaning antique and vintage fabrics here:

http://www.dollsandlace.com/howto.htm

These instructions work for me for just about anything except rust stains.  Embroidery colors don't fade.

Tuesday, April 22, 2008

Repairing Crochet - Carol's Bedspread

Here is a beautiful heirloom bedspread made by Daisy B___ (1884-1966), pictured below.
Daisy (pictured above) passed the heirloom bedspread to her daughter, Margaret (1907-1974), (pictured at left) who had married and had a son, Richard G. A____, to whom she then passed it on. Richard married Carol J. H___ . Carol is a friend of my sister-in-law, Patty, and she described a calamity involving her Laborador retriever named Boomer (Hunters Marsh High Flying Thunder is his real name), pictured to the right. It seems that Boomer got into the guest bedroom and gnawed a couple of holes in the family heirloom!  Carol hoped to be able to repair the damage...