I purchased a pair of pillow cases to embroider from ebay and after finishing them I found out the ink pattern would not wash out. This is a first for me. Everything else I ever embroidered the pattern washed out. I tried Oxyclean but that didn't work. I can't use any bleach because I have all ready completed doing them. Any ideas??? Thank you. snipped-for-privacy@aol.com
It is not uncommon at all for the inks stamped on products to remain after washing. It's a real problem, especially when they are bold lines. Hand drawing with black ink on silk or linen is a common practise and it's perfectly acceptable for some of the lines to show. But I know what you mean.
Repeated washings should be your remedy, but it may take a very long time, if ever.
I truly understand your angst. It's a sorry development after your hard work.
Dianne
No idea, but reading with personal interest. I was given a stamped design, as I'm pretty much the only stitcher in the family. But it's not to my taste, so I figured I would wash it out and do a counted pattern on it.
I've used Oxyclean, Zout, bleach, pen bleach applied directly to it. It's been at least 20 washings and it still looks the same. Now, I just bung it in the wash with every lighter coloured load. Maybe next summer will show some change.
This is a first for me. Like Joan, every other stamped design I've done was washed out first wash.
Tara
I am trying to catch up with this list (grin).
I wonder, could the hard to remove lines be 1 particular brand of pillowcases ? Hopefully it is and we could just avoid that brand in the future. Probably not that simple, though.
I have not had a problem removing the lines before either. It would be very upsetting if that should happen.
Naomah
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