[HNW] stabilizing silk

[Leif og Bjarne Drews]

Hi,
As not to spoil the fine charmeause, how about using a water soluble 
stabilisizer? You dont have to use a glue on, just put the soluble stuff on 
the top of the charmeause.
When your embroidery is finnished, you can just put it in cold water and it 
dissapears.
I have used this when  i embroidered a cushion cover in a rather course 
linnen. Because the weave was very uneaven and coarse, the soluble helped a 
lot.
But this is if your sewing silk dont bleed!!!

Bjarne
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sharon Zakhour" <Sharon.Zakhour at Sun.COM>
To: "Historic Needlework" <h-needlework at lists.ansteorra.org>
Sent: Monday, March 17, 2008 5:25 AM
Subject: [HNW] stabilizing silk


> Hi there,
>
> I have a silk charmeuse scarf that I need to embroider on.  Other than a
> hoop, what can I do to stabilize it a bit?  I am using silk embroidery
> floss, which adds to the difficulty level.
>
> All tips are welcome.  :-)
>
> Sharon
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