{"id":7699,"date":"2015-07-08T06:59:43","date_gmt":"2015-07-07T20:59:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/?p=7699"},"modified":"2015-07-08T06:59:56","modified_gmt":"2015-07-07T20:59:56","slug":"antique-mountmellick-is-steeping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/2015\/07\/08\/antique-mountmellick-is-steeping\/","title":{"rendered":"the antique Mountmellick is steeping"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have been cheered on by people around the globe, encouraging me to be brave about washing the antique Mountmellick piece that I bought. And so last night before going to bed, I put it in a bucket of cold water to steep.<\/p>\n

Amazingly, I had the presence of mind to take some photos of it before I did this. (Amazingly, because while lying in bed this morning I realised I posted off an urgent order yesterday with no postage on it… Oh dear!)<\/p>\n

Maybe some time today I will gather up all my courage and boil it.<\/p>\n

The method I will use to boil the Mountmellick embroidery is a time-honoured one, used for hundreds of years in Mountmellick (and many other cultures boil white embroidery too). The fabric used for Mountmellick is very hard-wearing, and just right for the “rough” treatment of boiling. <\/p>\n

The thing I’m concerned about in this case is the thread. It appears to be mostly stranded floss, though last night I did notice the buttonholing around the edge appears to be pearl cotton. I know that Mountmellick thread (very much like 4 ply knitting cotton) is strong and hard-wearing, but I’m not so sure about the floss.<\/p>\n

If the bobbin lace falls apart, I don’t think I’ll care so very much, because it shouldn’t be there anyway! It should have a knitted fringe as was traditional.<\/p>\n

Some years ago I wrote a post about boiling Mountmellick embroidery<\/a>. Why not read it to acquaint yourself with the method I’ll use? The comments on the post are interesting too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have been cheered on by people around the globe, encouraging me to be brave about washing the antique Mountmellick piece that I bought. And so last night before going to bed, I put it in a bucket of cold water to steep.<\/p>\n

Amazingly, I had the presence of mind to take some photos of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,10,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historical-embroidery","category-mountmellick-embroidery","category-whitework","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7699"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7702,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7699\/revisions\/7702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}