[Ponte Alto] Source for linen for fighters

[Jaine]

Interestingly enough, I was told by a Dane whose mom used to do this that
you can achieve a blinding blue white if you lay your linen out to dry on
top of snow. The sun is reflected off the snow and you get a sunbleached
effect intensified. The fabric will freeze and then the water sublimates out
and it ends up dry. But if you try to take it up before it has dried, it
will crack into bits. Sublimation takes longer than evaporation, too.

The idea that linen would be regularly washed in the dead of winter is a bit
hard for me to wrap my brain around, though. The effort required to heat the
water, standing around while changing clothing with nothing on at all,
laying out laundry on the snow while wearing damp clothing, (because it
always manages to get that way with a massive hand wash...) They might not
have bothered. I'd rather be wearing dirty warm clothes than waiting for
days for my clothing to sublimate dry with temperatures in the sub freezing
zone. And imagine trying to tell your hubster that his favorite shirt is no
more because you broke it into a gajillion pieces when taking the laundry in
before a storm.

Jaine
  -----Original Message-----
  From: ponte-alto-bounces at atlantia.sca.org
[mailto:ponte-alto-bounces at atlantia.sca.org]On Behalf Of Belphoebe
  Sent: Friday, June 04, 2004 11:45 AM
  To: The Barony of Ponte Alto
  Subject: Re: [Ponte Alto] Source for linen for fighters


  So we are in business then.  Fabric-store.com has the bleached and the
optic white.  I thought that at one point they had unbleached for some
reason.

  Sooooo, we get the bleached and avoid the optic white and we're cool :-)

  Thanks James!

  Bel

  james barker <flonzy at hotmail.com> wrote:
    On the topic of bleach vs. non-bleached I would ust like to say that the
    living history group I am in we ask for bleached linen instead of optic
    white. Optic white is achieved through modern methods, and the few
medieval
    linen shirts still about today are yellowish from bleach. Besides if you
    bleach your shirts they turn yellowish anyhow :)


    James







    From: Belphoebe
    Reply-To: The Barony of Ponte Alto
    To: The Barony of Ponte Alto
    Subject: Re: [Ponte Alto] Source for linen for fighters
    Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2004 07:45:46 -0700 (PDT)

    I also noticed (too late) that they (fabrics-store.com) are out of the
ILO
    19 unbleached, and that they only have the bleached. It does not matter.
    Bleached is fine too. Unbleached looks more peri od but bleached linen
beats
    the heck out of white trigger anyway (it breathes a lot better).

    Bel

    Barbara Reed wrote:
    If you can wait until 4th of July weekend, G-Street
    Fabrics typically has a very good sale on many of
    their fabrics at that time. I believe it was at least
    25% off last year, and probably the same this year.

    Greta

    --- Belphoebe wrote:

    > Also, G-Street has linen for $9.98 per yard and last
    > weekend it was 25% off that price. Check it out as
    > I am not sure if they still have the 25% discount.





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