I tend to make my own rice starch. It is quite cheap and easy, either boil up some short grain rice in water until it breaks down, strain through muslin and paint on. I have used this to fix Elizabethan hair styles as well as ruffs and it is wonderful, combs straight out. The quicker cheats way is to mix rice flour with water. You should be able to get rice flour at a health food shop, it is now available at most supermarkets in the UK but not sure about the US.
Rachel On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 12:18 AM, Sharon Collier <sha...@collierfam.com>wrote: > The source I have for rice and wheat starch for Elizabethan ruffs is: > Talas > 330 Morgan Ave. > Brooklyn, NY 11211 > talasonline.com > 212-219-0770 phone > 212-219-0735 fax > > -----Original Message----- > From: h-costume-boun...@indra.com [mailto:h-costume-boun...@indra.com] On > Behalf Of Katy Bishop > Sent: Monday, February 13, 2012 7:34 PM > To: Historical Costume > Subject: [h-cost] starch recipe > > Hi Guys, > > Since I can no longer find liquid starch in the store or faultless powdered > starch from Bon Ami, I am ready to make my own from cornstarch. Does > anyone > has a favorite recipe for starch, I will be using it for Victorian > petticoats and garments mostly. Unless anyone knows where one can still > buy > powdered starch..... > > -- > Katy Bishop, Vintage Victorian > katybisho...@gmail.com > www.VintageVictorian.com<http://www.vintagevictorian.com/> > Custom reproduction gowns of the Victorian Era. > Publisher of the Vintage Dress Series books. > > _______________________________________________ > h-costume mailing list > h-costume@mail.indra.com > http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume > > > _______________________________________________ > h-costume mailing list > h-costume@mail.indra.com > http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume > _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
