Good evening, H-Costume'lers - The process for blotting is well described below. BUT please use liquid 99% isopropyl or 70% isopropyl alcohol and NOT aerosol hairspray. You do NOT want to be breathing all of the ingredients of the hairspray nor leaving all those unneeded ingredients behind in your clothes. I have found both 99% and 70% isoprop in the first aid aisle of my local grocery store and local pharmacy store. You need lots of air circulation and fresh air while using the alcohol as well - ideally, working outside.
If you find that neither of the isoprops are moving the ink in to the paper towels, try ethyl alcohol (ethanol) - EverClearT grain alcohol is available in most places at 151 proof (75% ethanol/25% water). In some states you can also get EverClearT at 190 proof (95% ethanol/5% water) and you should use that if it is available. I also suggest you wear nitrile gloves so you don't dry out your skin on your hands as you are switching out paper towels (plain, undecorated ones), no matter which alcohol you try. Please feel free to contact me off-line if you need further clarification or have additional questions. Regards, Meg . _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ___________ Margaret E. Geiss-Mooney Textile/Costume Conservator & Collections Management Consultant Professional Associate - AIC 707-763-8694 m...@textileconservator.com .. alcohol is essential.....how Everex so is a blotted. We used to get instant out of our nursing assistant uniforms by having loads of papertowel handy. It is time and materials consuming.it took me 45 minutes and 1/2 can of gairspray once to get out a staint the size of my fist but it did come out completely. Put a wad of paper towels under the stain. Have another wad handy. Saturated the stain with gairspray. Blot. Keep turning or changing the town so you dont remain with the inky towels. Keep repeating the process repeating the sting with the gairspray and blotting it away. Dont forget to check the underpaid of towels to have always a clean surface from under as swell! We used to get every bit outof white uniforms, well enough for inspection which was very unforgiving. ... ...ink is water based and when trying to remove the ink it bleeds making the end spots bigger. May husband did this before and I washed the clothes several times and removed some of the ink but not all. This time the ink blots are massive and all over my clothes. ... _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
