Re: Padding for storage

["Packer, Nancy" <PackerN@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Can the stockinette "sausages" (custom or pre-made) be washed & dried? We occasionally do battle with moth infestations, & it would be helpful to know that we weren't cross-contaminating if we were to re-use these. Will tumble-drying thoroughly dry the polyester fill?
 
Nancy Packer
Collections Curator
The Design Center at Philadelphia University

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From: Textile Conservators on behalf of Sarah Lowengard
Sent: Thu 5/3/2007 4:58 PM
To: TEXCONS@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Padding for storage



(wearing my hat as a consultant for Testfabrics...)

Testfabrics carries pre-made "stuffers" -- a resin-free polyester
batting in a cotton stockinette. They are 1 meter long and about 1.5"
diameter, although you can compress them to a diameter between 1" and 2"
(with corresponding change in length).  I've shortened them by cutting
and re-stitching the end and have made longer stuffers (or odd shapes,
when needed) by stitching pieces together.

I don't remember the current price but the 2002 catalog says $3.50 to
$4.50 per piece, depending on the quantity purchased.

You can also purchase stockinette tubing and the fiberfill batting
separately.

Testfabrics
PO Box 26
415 Delaware Avenue
West Pittston, PA 18643
570-603-0432, fax 570-603-0433
testfabric@xxxxxxx


Sarah

Sarah Lowengard
Conservation Consultant, Testfabrics, Inc.
sarahl@xxxxxxxxx
New York City.