Luke, your best bet for cleaning the quilt is a vacuum cleaner that can
be set to low suction - just enough to lift the dust without slurping
the fabric or any of the little dolls into the machine. Cover the area
you are vacuuming with some fiberglass window screening, which helps
support the fabric against the suction and keeps small parts from being
slurped. I cut a square of the screening and either tape the edges or
sew cloth binding around them to prevent the cut ends of the screening
from catching on the fabric. I use a soft brush attachment and go over
the area with repeated light strokes to gently dislodge the dust and
allow it to be vacuumed. If there are areas on or behind the dolls that
are hard to reach with the screen technique, you can use a soft brush to
harry the dust out from its hiding places into the path of your vacuum.
In this case, it would be good to tie a piece of the screening over the
end of your vacuum, again to prevent parts of the quilt from being
ingested.
Hope this helps.
Anne
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-----Original Message-----
From: luc berguf [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2005 8:49 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Quilt cleaning
A client of the company I work for has a large quilt
on display that is now rather dusty, since it has been
hanging on a wall for some time. It has small cloth
dolls sewn onto in several places, so putting it
through the wash is out. I do not believe it is old
though, so can it be dry cleaned?
thanks in advance
Luke Burgdorf
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