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Sunlight causes irreversible accident to textiles. Wherever you affectation the quilt, it should not be subjected to absolute sunlight and added ablaze should be kept to a minimum.
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Handle with care. When administration the quilt, use apple-pie affection gloves.
On display. To affectation a batt in your home, a muslin batt sleeve should be absorbed to the top bend of the aback ancillary of the quilt. Ideally, this sleeve is D-shaped in cross-section. The collapsed allotment of the D is sewn to the quilt. The bolt sleeve prevents the rod from affecting the absolute quilt. The sleeve can be acclimated with rods or 2 inch by 3 inch board slats. You can additionally buy metal aqueduct (5/8 inch autogenous diameter) at a home accumulation abundance and cut it bottomward to the admeasurement needed. If application a board slat, it should be closed with two coats of water-based urethane; if application metal conduit, be abiding to apple-pie it apple-pie with a dry bolt afore using.
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Do not ablution or dry-clean the quilt. Unless you apperceive what you are doing, you will do added abuse than good. Do not acquiesce anyone to apple-pie your batt who says they've done their quilts in a abrasion machine.
About already anniversary year, exhaustion the quilt. To do this, lay the batt on several tables pushed calm that accept been covered with apple-pie sheets, so that the batt is absolutely supported. Prepare a area of nylon window screening about 18 x 24 inch by bounden the cut edges with appearance tape. Then, application a brazier (hose-style) exhaustion cleaner on the everyman accessible suction, exhaustion the batt through the screen, application the upholstery adapter tool. You can usually abate the assimilation by an acclimation slider on the wand. Do not administer burden and do not rub aback and alternating -- you're not vacuuming a rug! Lift the awning to reposition it; don't accelerate it about on the quilt. Exhaustion both the advanced and aback of the quilt.
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To abundance a quilt, use acid-free unbuffered tissue cardboard and an acid-free box. The batt should be apple-pie (see No. 6). Bend the batt with the top ancillary to the inside. Bend in thirds or sixths; this is to be abiding that you are not folding the batt on antecedent bend curve which are usually at the bisected and quarter. Pad the folds agilely with channelled acid-free tissue. Abode a area of acid-free tissue in the acid-free batt accumulator box, acclaim abode the bankrupt batt inside, again abode a area of ac-id-free tissue on top of the batt afore putting on the box lid.
No plastic. Artificial accoutrements are clashing for batt storage. Assimilation methods that abbreviate the batt will acceptable account bend curve to become permanent, and are not recommended.
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Storage places. Do not abundance quilts in an attic or basement. Temperature and clamminess are best connected in the genitalia of the abode you alive in every day, so abundance your quilts there. Raw copse produces acids that are bad for bolt (cedar and achievement chests are two of the affliction places for bolt storage). Do not use unpainted board poles or slats to affectation the quilt, or board chests with unpainted interiors for batt storage.
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