My husband and I deal with our linen masks by just not ironing them
after they are washed.
The other problem with the studies is they assume the person must use
fabrics a non-sewer has in the household. T-shirts, dish towels, pillow
cases. Even though many of the mask *patterns* have instructions that
use sewing machines. . . Anyway, a person who sews will have at least
some fabric yardage on hand and is aware that a fiber is not the same
thing as a weave or a thread count. Also that old, used fabric is likely
to be thinner in places.
Though one of the better suggestions I saw was to use the kind of pillow
cases sold to protect against dust mites. They did not mention that
there are similar cases for mattresses which would enable you to make
more masks.
Fran
Lavolta Press
www.lavoltapress.com
On 5/5/2020 10:37 AM, [email protected] wrote:
4. I am using a densely woven linen because of its superior ability to absorb
moisture and its ability to withstand being washed at very high temperatures;
the downside is having to iron it dry but we are all used to ironing.
I hope this is of some use; best wishes to you all.
Stevie
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I think the biggest problem with all the studies done on which fabrics work
best is that none of the people doing them seem to really know anything about
the different fabrics.
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