HNW - Setting Silk Dyes

[EowynA@aol.com]

Hi!

I am about to start an embroidered Elizabethan coif in silk, (finishing off 
the design details now), and while I do not expect to get it wet, or to wash 
it, I consider it possible that rain might fall upon it.   Thus, I would like 
the effect better if it did not cause the dye to run.  Silk thread is 
notorious for having the dye run.  

I understand that there is a mixture of water and vinegar that I can soak the 
threads in first that may set the dyes.  Does anyone know what the optimal 
proportions might be?

Thanks,
Melinda
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