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SV: Starched Textiles
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Hello Clare
I will suggest you try a borohydride
treatment of the starched uniforms. This is a reductive bleaching which
actually will stabilise the cellulose fibres.
Find detailed information on treatment in
article by Maj Ringgaard, 2002 (see below). I know Maj has had good
results with treatment of starched cellulose textiles.
The starch is preserved
in the textile and the coloured carbonyl groups are reduced
into colourless substances.
Annemette Scharff
Lecturer
School of
Conservation, Copenhagen, Denmark
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Hello
All,
I am a textile
conservation student at the University of Alberta. We have a number of cotton
nurses' uniforms circa 1959 that are to go out on exhibit. The bibs, caps,
collars and cuffs (all flat), are starched and extremely hard pressed.
Some of them have significant yellowing and we believe that
the starch is in large part to blame. The curator would like
to display the uniforms as they were originally worn -- that is, white and
crisp/starched.
On the one hand we
would really like to remove the yellowing, but on the other the starch is
integral to the objects as they would have been worn heavily starched?
I have combed the
conservation literature and have been unable to find anything about starched
textiles. Does anyone have any experience washing aged, heavily starched
textiles? Will any of the starch remain?
If it is dried on a glass table will they retain the 'hard pressed'
look/hand?
Thanks in advance
for your thoughts,
Clare
Lewarne
MSc. Candidate,
Textiles and Clothing
Department of Human
Ecology
University of
Alberta
Edmonton,
Alberta
Canada
