[amayausers] Re: Embroidering on Silk
- From: "Roland R. Irish III" <signman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: amayausers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 08:05:35 -0400
Terri- we never had a clue it was such a valuable antique cloth! It
was never opened up-the way she brought it in nicely folded, I just
lifted up the corner and put it in the speed frame-rest of the cloth
sat underneath on the 'table' of the Amaya. We never even thought
anything about it being old-thought it was a new wedding gift or
something!
Until I opened up the folds to peel off the excess solvy, we had no
idea there was even a tag or anything on the material.
Live and learn....won't ever do that again!
On Jul 25, 2006, at 9:31 PM, Lee or Terri Hoover wrote:
> Roland,
>
> Did you also have them sign a release that you would not be liable
> for any
> damage to the table cloth? Thanks for the input.
>
> Terri
> Embroidery Creations
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Irish III
> Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2006 8:22 PM
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> Subject: [amayausers] Re: Embroidering on Silk
>
> I don't know if this will help....but today we ran off an initial (2
> 1/2" script) on the corner of a pure white tablecloth with some pale
> pattern going through it-and kind of hemmed like an old blanket...I'd
> almost have guessed a damask or something? Really nice material,
> expensive looking...and all white of course...so we draped a large
> piece of material I had over the whole table and area around the
> amaya. The cloth was folded into about 18" fold-in a paper bag and
> the customer had pulled it out and showed me where to embroider the
> intial at an angle in the corner. So I figured...easy job-just use
> the speed frame, keep the cloth covered, no problems getting it dirty.
> Was going to use tear away, but then figured this was really nice
> feeling cloth, I'd try something I'd heard about for silk and other
> fine fabrics...double layer of solvy only behind it with the auto
> tension turned on.
> Well, we ran it off...color she picked for the thread was just barely
> seen-a good light contrast. (she wasn't around-just Sue and I ) and
> it looked great.
> I pulled the 'folds' off the table to flip the corner back to peel
> off the solvy... and inside on the other corner was a silk flower
> pinned to the edge of the cloth with a tag from a very upscale
> antique store...
> WE HAD JUST EMBROIDERED ON A 101 YEAR OLD PERFECT CONDITION
> TABLECOVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
> :-O ohmygawd!!!!!!!
> If we had screwed that up.... :-O
>
> Next time we will ALWAYS find out what it is!
> But boy, for once everything worked, it came out great, and using
> solvy-it looked like it was hand embroidered years ago.
> She loved it!
> If I had known it was that old-I would either not have done it-or
> charged a lot more than $10!!!!!!
>
> But I'd say try the silk with just solvy....should work fine!
>
> Roland
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