p-bleach-fab-msg - 10/6/99

Period bleaching of fabric.

NOTE: See also the files: textiles-msg, linen-msg, dyeing-msg, mordants-msg,
washing-msg, felting-msg, color-a-fab-bib, cotton-msg, cotton-art.

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Date: Thu, 09 Sep 1999 20:37:29 -0700
From: Aaron & Karen Benson <aaronben@olympus.net>
To: sca-arts@raven.cc.ukans.edu
Subject: Re: Bleaching Fabric

In the series called Connections by James Burke there was a bit on
bleaching using soured milk. The finished material was put in large jugs
of milk and let sour 5 weeks, as I recall and then washed out in the
nearby stream and set out on the field to dry. It may have been in
Connections 2 and was about the British or Scotish weavers. These series
are on video and avialable thru the library

Mathilda


Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1999 00:41:25 -0400
From: Becky Needham <betony@infinet.com>
To: sca-arts@raven.cc.ukans.edu
Subject: Re: No Subject

>     I have been told by other scadians and various interpreters of historic
> sites that to whitten cloth, wax, etc., people would lay things out in a
> field in the sun.  I have no reference for documentation, but try textile
> history books.
>
> Lady Adelaide

"Connections 3" had linens being bleached by laying the cloth out in the
sun and pouring either buttermilk or sour milk on them and letting them
dry.

Bet


Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1999 16:45:09 -0700
From: lilinah@grin.net
Subject: Re: SC - cheese revisited

Raoghnailt wrote:
>Don't throw out the whey -- use
>in bread-making for part of the water.  The bread will keep longer.  You can
>also use it to dip cut up fruit in so that it doesn't brown (instead of
>using lemon juice).

Or, you can use it to bleach linen, according to the SCA Garb list. Soak
the linen in it, spread it in the sun to dry, then wash.

Anahita

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