Stiffening Crochet Flowers
Dear Aunt Daisy, I should be so grateful if you could kindly advise me what to use for stiffening crochet flowers and small crochet (continued on next page)
(continued from previous page) articles of wear. Starch does not seem to make them like those in the shops, and as I do a’ great deal of crochet for gifts of various kinds, I should be so mauch obliged if you could tell me. A friend thought that she once heard you speak on the subject, and that you mentioned gum arabic, but she cannot remember the details. "Lower Hutt." Yes, we had quite a little radio discussion on the subject of stiffening a tatted or crochet halo for a bride. There were three methods sent in by the Daisy Chain. (1) Mix a cup of sugar with one third eup water and boil for 2 minutes, stirring constantly. Then put in the crochet and boil for 2 minutes. Squeeze out excess moisture, pull into shape required and lay to dry. (2) Make a strong paste with white gum arabic, and strain. Paint it on to both sides of the crochet and leave to dry. If the holes are filled up when dry, pierce the gum out. (3) Beat up an egg-white till frothy, and dab it thoroughly all over the work, then leave to dry out. Do not press with hot 1ron-just leave it.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 430, 19 September 1947, Page 22
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236Stiffening Crochet Flowers New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 430, 19 September 1947, Page 22
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