How to wash Antique Linens
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- čas přidán 29. 08. 2024
- Ms. Malena shows you how to wash antique lace and linens. You can use this process to clean the dirt and stains from most of your antique delicate fabrics.
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Transcript:
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so I got this
amazing antique lace at a flea market
this weekend, but you can literally feel
the dirt just kind of almost woven into
the fabric. I'm sure this has happened to a lot of you,
so I'm going to show you some basic
cleaning methods on how to get rid of
this dust and to kind of liven it up
again. this lace is over a hundred years
old, so there are some issues but I
consider them pretty small especially if
I'm going to rework it into a skirt or
something. so the first step that I do
with all of my antique clothing is let's
just rinse out the dirt before we can
begin, okay? make sure you get a good pair
of gloves. it's really important to
protect your skin. Okay
now that the water is full we're just
gonna kind of move the fabric around and
be sure to be really gentle especially
with these older netted laces because
you don't want to be the reason why
they're tearing you don't want to wring
stuff out like we're used to seeing
people do. sometimes when you're washing
antique and vintage clothing, you'll
actually get some odor that comes out of
the clothes as you're washing them. it's
pretty satisfying. so now that we've
rinsed it out we're gonna let all this
water drain. this lace is pretty dirty
so I'm going to give it another rinse. you can
see on the second rinse the water is a
much lighter color. there is less dirt coming
out as well. now we're finishing up the
second rinse and you can see the fabric
it's already starting to lighten a
little bit the stains are gonna come out,
we're gonna let the water out and
transfer the fabric to our other bowl.
the next step is to add the OxiClean but
don't do it right to the cold water that
you had. no matter what it is that I'm
washing I use a full scoop. it's actually
much gentler than
think it is. So I'm gonna put this into
my sink and then you want to
switch to really hot water. again this is
just the OxiClean and water,
you're not gonna add the clothing this
yet. by doing this the hot water is
gonna help the oxicleen dissolve. If you put
OxiClean right into cold water it's
gonna harden up and become like a rock.
so now that our OxiClean has dissolved
in the hot water you're gonna see a
little bit of suds on top, the water is
gonna look a little murky, wait for the
water to cool it should only take about
five minutes and then you're gonna add
your delicate fabrics, okay? Now that the
water is cool we can add our delicate
fabric. You just put it in, and again,
be really gentle with how you're
handling it. you don't want to wring it
or push it around too much.. and just lay
it in there. now that it's all mixed in
with the OxiClean and the cold water,
just walk away and let it sit for awhile.
I'd say probably about an hour you
should be good, sometimes you'll have to
rinse it out and repeat, but let's just
start there and see how much it comes up,
okay? So we have to repeat that process a
couple of times using the hot water to
dissolve a cup of OxiClean, swishing our
fabric around in the water, you can watch
the color get really dark, wait about an
hour, rinse it out, repeat. Now if you
look, we've rinsed everything out and the
water is pretty clear and the fabric is
so much lighter. you want to make sure that
you rinse out all of the OxiClean
because if you don't and your item dries,
you're gonna get these like yellow
stringy marks and some hardened areas.
this is pretty clean so we're gonna let
all the water out. I like to hang my
pieces outside to dry. But this piece of lace is a
little fragile, so instead of
hanging it so it's really heavy, you
don't want to pull and stretch in a
weird way. lay out some towels and then
you can relay the fabric out on top of
it and it will slowly dry. some people like
to roll it up also to get out from the
extra moisture, but with this fine netted
lace it really isn't necessary.
thanks so much for watching this video
on how to clean some antique lace.
comment below and let me know what else
you want to learn about when it comes to
taking care of vintage and antique
clothing and be sure to follow me on
social media and Etsy for great vintage
finds. thanks again!
How gorgeous is that lace. It’s came up a beautiful colour😊
This turned out gorgeous. Now I know how to clean some of my moms things. Thank you.
Glad it was helpful!
Great rescue of that lovely piece of lace!!!!!!
Thank you! Great presentation.
WOW! What a difference! Amazing! 😉👍💖
Very beautiful Antique lace... Thanks for your video...
Gorgeous!! Great job
THANK YOU!!! I recently had to kick out a toxic girlfriend who choose to express her toxicity to it's fullest on her way out and she really did a number on the lace on the top of the antique chest of drawers. I almost despaired I'd just have to chuck it out because of the cola stain.
Hi! This is so helpful! I have an old (my grandmother's) white cotton tablecloth with colored embroidery on it. There are several matching embroidered napkins. How can I clean them so the colors don't run? Thx for any help!
I’m gonna try this. I just found my laced veil that my grandmother gave to me for my first holy communion. It wasn’t properly packed away and I wanna clean it
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I somehow forgot the login password. I appreciate any help you can offer me.
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This is so helpful!! Thank you!
Thank you for the help!
That was really a good start to help me clean my lace and linen tablecloths thank you. I do however have a great challenge ahead of me . I have this very old dark and stubborn on ma tablecloth . Not sure if oxy clean alone will take care of it Any suggestions?
Baking soda is a really good brightener on fabric however I'm not sure if it's safe for lace and linen. You might want to do some extra research on that if you ever olan to use it. Also since it's been 3 months, I'm assuming you already washed it.. so I'd like to ask how it went :)
(: I have a stain from the bottom of a candle ... the oily part of the wax somehow must have seeped into a tablecloth (and of course it is white)!!!!! ... 😢 It is really tough to get out ... There is like a light stain in a circular shape because the candle had the label at the bottom!!!!! It is linen, so I am afraid to put anything harsh on it!!!!! ... ☺
I have a tatted tablecloth that my grandmother made and it is over 40 years old and it stinks so here I am trying to figure out what to do
Hi there @shericonrtrary. try this product from lysol. I have had a pretty good success rate using it for oder reduction. Good luck!
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Thank you for the video. I have some of my mom's knit baby clothes from 1924 but they have yellowed. I believe they are cotton knit and one may be wool. Can I use the same technique?
Yes, the water must be cold for the wool or it will shrink. For knits I recommend blocking the fabric (gently pulling towards opposite corners or edges) multiple times as they start to dry. This will keep them from shrinking up too.
Really turned out well. Do you think laying the lace in a ultra sonic cleaner would hurt the material in any way?
Honestly I have not had the pleasure to try the ultra sonic cleaner. if you try it, let me know what you find out.
How do you make clothes out fo lace? That sounds very cool!
Lace can be made by hand or machine. Bobbin lace, chantilly lace, chemical lace, battenburg lace just a few of the many kinds of lace out there and each is made differently. Then, once you have the fabric, you would stitch it together with a pattern, similar to how you would make clothes with other fabric. Just be sure to be more gentle, since lace is delicate.
Great video! Do you know why antique linens - like napkins, or a baby dress - can start to develop holes? I am so delicate with them and I don't agitate or wring them, yet each time I hand wash them, small rips start to happen.
(: Fabric can deteriorate with time!!!!! ... 😢
Yep. It's just the limitations of the material. Overtime the natural fibers breakdown.
Thanks for sharing!
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Thanks for the video. I have a 50s prom dress with lots of tulle...it is so dirty its nearly matted. I'm going to try this process on it. I also have a satin or silk nightgown from the 40s--it was my moms. It's absolutely gorgeous--the buttons are covered in the same fabric. Would I use this same process to wash it (cold water of course) or does satin or silk require a different method?
Hi Cat, Great question for silks and satin I would dry clean. They are much more delicate and require special cleaning. When you take them to your dry cleaner make sure you specify they are delicate vintage items and they should label them as such. I hope that helps!
I bought an antique handkerchief at an estate sale; I used the gentlest specialty quilt soap to clean it, but there were spots that were so fragile, the fabric disintegrated between my fingers at the gentlest rub. Any idea why? The area where that happened was sort of brownish, the overall handkerchief is a pale ivory and I can't tell if it is silk or not.
Hi Florence,
First of all, I am sorry to hear that. It is a peculiar thing that if it is stored in plastic or processed with a chemical in its life any reacts to even the most gentle soap. Sometimes the stain itself is what detroys the fibers. Excess exposure to water or very hot temperatures can also cause shredding. Sorry to say it is not easy to identitfy the culprit that destroyed your item. Wishing you lucky treasure hunting in the future, Malena.
my nan's been digging through the lace she inherited and we found some very delicate lace, it's at least 100 years old, it's pretty clean but is yellowing slightly, would this work for that do you think?
without seeing it, I would hate to give the wrong suggestion. Try a small piece or corner in oxi clean and see how it holds up. Most likely, this will work well.
Did the lace continue to whiten as it dried? It still looked pretty stained after being rinsed. I'm hoping my garments continue to whiten over night.
Hello! Yes, the lace lightened as it dried over night!
Hi. I have a silk or acetate tablecloth that’s very old. Can I use this method to clean the cloth?? Help??
That depends if it has embroidery or a print. In general a combination of cold water and white vinegar should do the trick and remove odor. Be sure to hang to dry.
Thank you. It’s a print.
did you use hot water?
She used cold initially to rinse then hot with the oxyclean
Ok you museum archival folks, a major textile problem. I have a 1930s-40s, red, Japanese kimono I had hanging because I love looking at it but unknown to me was a freshly placed glue trap to catch mice. Hold on.......my beautiful kimono somehow “fell” (my husband admits to nothing and hates my kimono collection) and some of the hem plopped into the thick glue trap and now has thick, sticky glue on it. I delicately removed the trap from the kimono but it still has thick glue that needs to be removed. I live in the D.C. area and was thinking to call someone at the Smithsonian but I don’t know whom to ask or where to start. Any suggestions?
Try putting a bit of the plain glue in a solution of vinegar and tepid water to see if it begins to dissolve. If not, try a bit of baking soda in tepid water and see if a bit of the glue in that solution begins to dissolve. Patience.