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<DIV><SPAN class=253140821-04062004><FONT face="Kristen ITC" color=#0000ff
size=2>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.
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<DIV><SPAN class=253140821-04062004><FONT face="Kristen ITC" color=#0000ff
size=2>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.
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<DIV><SPAN class=253140821-04062004><FONT face="Kristen ITC" color=#0000ff
size=2>Jaine</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Tahoma
size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B>
ponte-alto-bounces@atlantia.sca.org
[mailto:ponte-alto-bounces@atlantia.sca.org]<B>On Behalf Of
</B>Belphoebe<BR><B>Sent:</B> Friday, June 04, 2004 11:45 AM<BR><B>To:</B> The
Barony of Ponte Alto<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Ponte Alto] Source for linen for
fighters<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV>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.</DIV>
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<DIV>Sooooo, we get the bleached and avoid the optic white and we're cool
:-)</DIV>
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<DIV>Thanks James!</DIV>
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<DIV>Bel<BR><BR><B><I>james barker <flonzy@hotmail.com></I></B>
wrote:</DIV>
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style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">On
the topic of bleach vs. non-bleached I would ust like to say that the
<BR>living history group I am in we ask for bleached linen instead of optic
<BR>white. Optic white is achieved through modern methods, and the few
medieval <BR>linen shirts still about today are yellowish from bleach.
Besides if you <BR>bleach your shirts they turn yellowish anyhow
:)<BR><BR><BR>James<BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR>From: Belphoebe
<BELFEBE@YAHOO.COM><BR>Reply-To: The Barony of Ponte Alto
<PONTE-ALTO@ATLANTIA.SCA.ORG><BR>To: The Barony of Ponte Alto
<PONTE-ALTO@ATLANTIA.SCA.ORG><BR>Subject: Re: [Ponte Alto] Source for linen
for fighters<BR>Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2004 07:45:46 -0700 (PDT)<BR><BR>I also
noticed (too late) that they (fabrics-store.com) are out of the ILO <BR>19
unbleached, and that they only have the bleached. It does not matter.
<BR>Bleached is fine too. Unbleached looks more peri od but bleached linen
beats <BR>the heck out of white trigger anyway (it breathes a lot
better).<BR><BR>Bel<BR><BR>Barbara Reed <BEREED26@YAHOO.COM>wrote:<BR>If you
can wait until 4th of July weekend, G-Street<BR>Fabrics typically has a very
good sale on many of<BR>their fabrics at that time. I believe it was at
least<BR>25% off last year, and probably the same this
year.<BR><BR>Greta<BR><BR>--- Belphoebe wrote:<BR><BR>> Also, G-Street
has linen for $9.98 per yard and last<BR>> weekend it was 25% off that
price. Check it out as<BR>> I am not sure if they still have the 25%
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