Mystery Fabric
Jan. 17th, 2009 10:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
janestarzLast week we visited the market on Tuesday and I hauled a few fabrics home, including a mystery fabric in a lovely grey-blue shade. It looked like a wool, but it definitely felt like polyester. I couldn't be bothered to do a burn-test (where's that trusty girlfriend with the matches when you need one, eh?) so I called it mystery fabric #1 and left it at that.
I wanted to make pants out of it. I also had some ice-camo for a vest. The camo fabric was a coupon, a little left-over piece I once picked up at Schröder and it needed to be pre-washed and pre-shrunk. To turn the washing machine on for just one meter of fabric, that would be a waste! So I took the mystery fabric (blue, just like that camo) and one of my blue blouses to join in the tumble.
A couple of hours later, I took the laundry out of the machine. At first I didn't recognize the article I had in my hand. Little did I realise it was my bright turquoise blouse. Not so bright anymore, and definitely nowhere near turquoise. It was now a undefined colour between indigo and black.
So I guess mystery fabric #1 was mostly wool because I've never seen polyester lose its colour!
The ice blue camo is now not so ice anymore, though the camo persists. It's a little...muted. Deep grey. Like night-time camo. And it still goes well with the not-so-mystery fabric, so I guess this was an interesting experiment. And a lesson to go play with matches before randomly tossing fabrics into a washing machine.
Huh.
I wanted to make pants out of it. I also had some ice-camo for a vest. The camo fabric was a coupon, a little left-over piece I once picked up at Schröder and it needed to be pre-washed and pre-shrunk. To turn the washing machine on for just one meter of fabric, that would be a waste! So I took the mystery fabric (blue, just like that camo) and one of my blue blouses to join in the tumble.
A couple of hours later, I took the laundry out of the machine. At first I didn't recognize the article I had in my hand. Little did I realise it was my bright turquoise blouse. Not so bright anymore, and definitely nowhere near turquoise. It was now a undefined colour between indigo and black.
So I guess mystery fabric #1 was mostly wool because I've never seen polyester lose its colour!
The ice blue camo is now not so ice anymore, though the camo persists. It's a little...muted. Deep grey. Like night-time camo. And it still goes well with the not-so-mystery fabric, so I guess this was an interesting experiment. And a lesson to go play with matches before randomly tossing fabrics into a washing machine.
Huh.
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Date: 2009-01-18 02:04 pm (UTC)Dit zijn zo van die momenten die een mooie les vormen. Dit zal je niet gauw meer gebeuren. ;-)
Doet me denken aan die keer dat onze waarde materiaal coordinator de inquisitie robes had gewassen. Je weet wel. Paarse streep (waarschijnlijk inderdaad iets van wol) en witte robes. De resultaten waren erg.... fout. Ja, dat is het beste woord. :-)
Dit is mij gelukkig nog nooit overkomen. Een voordeel van het feit dat we vrijwel alleen zwarte kleding hebben.
Wel heb ik de nodige perikelen met de wasdroger gehad. kleding in de lengte maatje S en in de breedte maatje XXL en dat soort dingen.
Shurf
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Date: 2009-01-18 05:54 pm (UTC)