Greetings all:
Some related info on everything you ever wanted to know about household
items made of wood:
Treen and other wooden bygones : an encyclopaedia and social history
Pinto, Edward H.
Bell, 1969. x, 458 p., 239 plates :
Old, but considered a classic.
Also Shire Publications at:
I'd be REALLY CAREFUL of KMnO4 around cloth. It's an
awfully strong reducing agent.
Read up on its chemistry and interactions before
using.
Ann in CT
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> It sounds like potassium permanganate. Although I
> could be
> wrong--chemistr
In a message dated 6/28/2006 6:05:48 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
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It sounds like potassium permanganate. Although I could be
wrong--chemistry class was a long time ago.
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That must be it, because I can hear them calling it "potassium" in my
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I had a colleague who used to tech with some chemical he ordered in the
mail. It was a dark powder that a small amount in a washer load would tech [to a
warm brownish tint] things permanently. It never came out! It would also work
[quickly]for small
What if you used just a little bit of color remover to soften the color,
rather than overdying?
Kate
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At 12:39 PM 6/28/2006, you wrote:
This is true of stage too. But most wardrobe people I know, film
or stage, use Rit Ecru to tech white down. Well most often. Tan in
Rit is on the pink side. And Beige in Rit is on the green side.
Ecru is yellowy. All read as white. It depends on which way
In a message dated 6/28/2006 3:51:17 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
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It's a real color.
For a washer load, I've just thrown in the whole box of ecru. For tan or a
grey, just like 1/4 to 1/2 a box.
And it does change the color. It is no longer white, but definitely
Lavolta Press wrote:
This is true of stage too. But most wardrobe people I know, film or
stage, use Rit Ecru to tech white down. Well most often. Tan in Rit
is on the pink side. And Beige in Rit is on the green side. Ecru is
yellowy. All read as white. It depends on which way you want
This is true of stage too. But most wardrobe people I know, film or stage,
use Rit Ecru to tech white down. Well most often. Tan in Rit is on the pink
side. And Beige in Rit is on the green side. Ecru is yellowy. All read as
white. It depends on which way you want the white to go. Warm..
In a message dated 6/28/2006 12:32:43 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
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The author does mention that
> > pure white often looks too bright on camera, and so he overdyes with a
> > weak solution of Rit tan to make it a shade that "looks" white, or just
> > off-white, when
At 11:20 PM 27/06/2006 -0600, you wrote:
> I've just read a very interesting book on historic costuming for film.
> It contains almost no information on how to design or make clothing, but
> a great deal on how to organize the process of obtaining enormous
> quantities of garments, keeping track
Yes, I bought this book at Amazon.com this spring. The publication kept
getting pushed back for some reason.
Cindy Abel
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Looking in the archives, I see this exhibition was discussed at the time, and
the catalogue was said to be expected in 2005. A copy has just turned up on my
desk for cataloguing (dated 2006!), and it is indeed a beautiful book, with
many 18th century paintings and prints as well as photos of the
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