Suggestions for Silk Cleaning

lilith2150

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Any ideas on how to clean a Japanese silk? It's 4 stretched panels and the customer thinks it's stained by cocktails. It certainly looks like a sugary residue. Can it be cleaned?

Thank
Deb
 
Are you a textile conservator or a picture framer?

Just yanking your chain a bit.

Don't even think of trying to clean it. Call a textile conservator NOW.

edie the youllregretitifyoueventry goddess
 
Stretched on panels like a screen? If so, that can complicate an already dicy situation. Suggest a textile conservator or at the very least one of those drycleaners that specilaizes in handwork (few and far between, but they do exist).

Treatment by one who doesn't do this for a living might be successful, but would certainly be nerve wracking and IMO not worth whatever money you might charge for it.

Rebecca
 
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