kenmoreguy89
Well-known member
Well, I actually have tried this, but without good or accettabile results TBH...
Both my mother (when she was still with us) and me have a thing also for vintage linens, we used to have our stall at flea markets regularly and of course buy around.
Since you also tell me you are a vintage linen collector you well know that the yellowed stained linens are the ones going for cheap and often even the most good looking ones.
Forget the rust stained ones, which I often buy and removing the stains with fluoridric acid that removes rust instantly and immediately dropping it in the agitating washer or alkaline detergent solutiom that immeduately kills the acid.
But the yellowing, is the hardest.
I remember purchasing stuff in the past and try the long 2 days soak in the bathtub but with really no success...
At those times i was afraid to rruin the drapes or shrink some knitted stuff if i washed them in the machine or washed too hot.
Some items with long drapes i still do them by hand, that is because some long drapes tangle bad if washed in the machine.
I was 12 and still had to learn a lot at those times.
I talk about stuff with drapes because they are still the most complicated for me... and am still afraid to shrink, some drapes stand boil washes others shrinks.
Soak is of course the way to get them clean, but I cannot say I ever had success by using cold or warm water and oxygen no matter how much the soak time.
Both my mother (when she was still with us) and me have a thing also for vintage linens, we used to have our stall at flea markets regularly and of course buy around.
Since you also tell me you are a vintage linen collector you well know that the yellowed stained linens are the ones going for cheap and often even the most good looking ones.
Forget the rust stained ones, which I often buy and removing the stains with fluoridric acid that removes rust instantly and immediately dropping it in the agitating washer or alkaline detergent solutiom that immeduately kills the acid.
But the yellowing, is the hardest.
I remember purchasing stuff in the past and try the long 2 days soak in the bathtub but with really no success...
At those times i was afraid to rruin the drapes or shrink some knitted stuff if i washed them in the machine or washed too hot.
Some items with long drapes i still do them by hand, that is because some long drapes tangle bad if washed in the machine.
I was 12 and still had to learn a lot at those times.
I talk about stuff with drapes because they are still the most complicated for me... and am still afraid to shrink, some drapes stand boil washes others shrinks.
Soak is of course the way to get them clean, but I cannot say I ever had success by using cold or warm water and oxygen no matter how much the soak time.
