the Materials safety data sheet for the product Oxi-clean
http://www.melrosechem.com/english/msd_eng/hs0853.pdf
here is a site with a handy list of many textile museums
http://www.quilthistory.com/museums.htm
Perhaps the Smithsonian could help
Best wishes, Barbara, retired librarian
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From: Ginger Frembling <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Thu, Feb 17, 2011 10:51 am
Subject: [MUSEUM-L] Quilt/Textile Preservation
I did a presentation on textile preservation this week to a quilting guilde.
Afterwards a lady came up and asked me about cleaning an antique quilt. We
talked about surface cleaning and hand cleaning with our old standby Orvus. But
she had apparently talked with an antique quilt "expert" (non-museum) about
cleaning it earlier and that person told her the following: Fill up her washer
with cold water and add Oxyclean. Soak the quilt without aggitation and then
spin the water out. Have to be honest. I cringed. But my question to you
is....is Oxyclean safe for historic textiles? Maybe I need to update my
conservation knowledge, but I haven't heard anything about using it. Any
thoughts?
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