when there is printed ' Screen print, not intended for sleepwear' on a flannel ?
Today I bought a piece of flannel for the back of a preemie quilt and when I arrived at home and fondled the fabric ( and so on, you know the usual procedure :-))) ) I found this sentence, which makes me a bit nervous.
Can anyone help ? TIA Heidi from Germany
Heidi, I am on vacation in North Carolina and struggling with a very slow dial-up so I am not as active on the group as I would like to be - but just wait until I get home.......lots of stories to tell!
Anyway, to your question, when it says "not suitable for sleepwear", it usually means it the fabric has not been treated with a fire retardant which is required for sleepwear. The "screen printed" part means the pattern on the fabric was printed onto the fabric and not woven into it. I would prewash this piece to see if the screen printing washes off or fades.
Hope this helps! Wait until you hear about the sewing machine I saw on Plymouth Island.....
Alice in NJ (lives) but currently in NC (vacations).
Heidi from Germany wrote:
Thanks, that sounds good. As the fabric is meant for a preemie, it shouldn't have any chemical things in it, so I think I can use it. It's already washed and is drying outside in the air ( no rain today !!! )
Heidi from Germany
"AliceW in NJ" schrieb:
Just out of curiosity, how well do the flame retardants hold up to repeated washing? Or maybe nobody knows.
Saw a demo on TV of what happens to fabric under a blow torch (held a couple of feet away). The poly just melted instantly and burst into flame. The cotton smoldered for several seconds and eventually caught fire. The wool charred where the torch was directly on it but never really flamed. As soon as the torch moved away, the wool stopped burning. Roberta in D
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I did a quick google and found this site. It has the explanations for the whats and whys and how longs.
AliceW in NJ
Roberta Zollner wrote:
There was an article in our local paper today about the buildup of toxic chemicals in the the blood. Surprisingly kids can have very high levels. FWIW, flame retardants are one of the culprits.
See: tinyurl.com/gsef5 for the newspaper article.
Allison
AliceW > I did a quick google and found this site. It has the explanations for
Well, I was told that, if I washed flame retardant fabric, even once, it was pointless....makes no sense to me. My children have had crib sheets made out of perfectly normal flannel, and all their pajamas that I have made have not been flame retardant materials either - why pay more if you can't wash things that would get stinky??
Larisa
Roberta Zollner wrote:
Thanks Alice! Very enlightening. Apparently you can evade the chemicals if the sleepwear is "tight-fitting". I would expect any sort of pyjama to meet that criterion, unless it had a really loose top. And they say the stuff washes out after about 50 times in the laundry. Roberta in D
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