I have used real stones and know of several others that have as well. Have not had any problems with them going through the dry cleaners as long as you have a good dry cleaner!
Traci On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 5:46 PM, Sharon Collier <sha...@collierfam.com>wrote: > I would think they would dry clean just fine. They are a rock, after all. > You're not supposed to dry clean pearls, because the chemicals damage the > nacre. > Sharon C. > > -----Original Message----- > From: h-costume-boun...@indra.com [mailto:h-costume-boun...@indra.com] On > Behalf Of Lavolta Press > Sent: Monday, October 03, 2011 3:13 PM > To: Historical Costume > Subject: [h-cost] Has anyone here beaded garments with real stones > > I just received in a mail (from India) a large multiple strand of little > citrines, pretty but almost certainly not of the highest gem quality. > If nothing else the stringing is awful and I hate the clasp, so they'd need > to be restrung. But, they are essentially beads, a teardrop shape with a > hole pierced through across the narrow end. So I might be able to sew them > to cloth assuming I can get a narrow enough needle. > > Problem: I am sure they will wash, being stones, but I am not sure they > will dry clean. And I think they'd work best attached to a medium weight > to > heavy, dry-cleanable, rather fancy fabric. > > Has anyone tried using real stones for beading and dry cleaning them? Or > should I just have them restrung into a better quality of necklace? > > Thanks for any info. > > Fran > Lavolta Press > Books of historic clothing patterns > www.lavoltapress.com > www.facebook.com/LavoltaPress > > > _______________________________________________ > h-costume mailing list > h-costume@mail.indra.com > http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume > > _______________________________________________ > h-costume mailing list > h-costume@mail.indra.com > http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume > _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
