Safe Fabric Storage
#11
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Originally Posted by peaceandjoy
I'm looking into wood shelving, and am wondering: Is it safe to store fabric on wood shelves? Painted? Polyurethaned? Stained? Robin
Staining wood will not seal in the acid. Polyurethane does seal in the acid, so polyurethaned wood shelves would be fine. Formica shelves are fine too. If you are putting up shelving against a wood panel wall, you would need to make sure that the wood on the wall has been polyurethaned or painted too. (I'm pretty sure paint will seal acid in the wood.)
The paper side of freezer paper will have acid in it (paper is made from wood fibers), so to use this effectively fabric would have to be placed against the plasticized side of the freezer paper.
Anyone who has done scrapbooking may be familiar with "archival quality" paper. This is paper that has been treated so it no longer contains acid. Anyone storing a wedding dress wants to make sure that the tissue paper and box are archival quality; otherwise, when the dress is removed decades later, it may have the brown staining characteristic of acid damage.
HTH!
Mary
#12
Just my thought.....Since you are near the kitchen, your fabric is being exposed to many things; e.g., cleaning chemicals, grease from frying, steam from boiling, etc. Plastic containers with a locking lid are nice. However, if you cook/boil alot, please make sure your plastic tubs/containers aren't leaching from the changing temperatures which in-turn will ruin your fabric. How about storing your fabric in the extra bedroom for safe keeping and just getting out what you need at the time you are working? Once again, just a thought. GiGi
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#15
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Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Oklahoma
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Originally Posted by retrogirl02
I'm in the laundry room, too and have my stash in plastic bins and smaller pieces in plastic sleeves or wood shelves. I had all my material on a wooden shelf and have heard that you shouldn't but I didn't have any trouble with the material. I have been collecting it for a number of years and inherited a lot from friends who did as they pleased. Maybe it has something to do with interactions over time or the work room environment but I have not had any issues.
It is, however much easier for me to see what I have and to carry a bin over to my cutting table when using plastic. I don't keep my lids on for the most part and am happy with the change.
It is, however much easier for me to see what I have and to carry a bin over to my cutting table when using plastic. I don't keep my lids on for the most part and am happy with the change.
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This is the shelving that I use - except mine has blue painted metal supports and the supplier now furnishes white laminated board for shelving
http://www.tennsco.com/zline.htm
It's nice because it's very sturdy, fairly easy to adjust the shelves (the hard part is taking stuff off them before one can do it), comes in a lot of configurations, fairly easy to assemble - just need a hard rubber mallet or hammer (a hammer could chip the paint), not overly expensive.
The down side - it does look a bit "industrial"
http://www.tennsco.com/zline.htm
It's nice because it's very sturdy, fairly easy to adjust the shelves (the hard part is taking stuff off them before one can do it), comes in a lot of configurations, fairly easy to assemble - just need a hard rubber mallet or hammer (a hammer could chip the paint), not overly expensive.
The down side - it does look a bit "industrial"
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