Posted by Nicole Dumont-Béboux on Thursday, 10 February 2011, at 3:54 a.m.:
In Reply to: Re: shrinking of silk posted by Sharon Bowles on Tuesday, 8 February 2011, at 9:52 a.m.:
Thank you for your input.
I finally made a quick sample, measured it and washed it.
There was no shrinking to speak of, BUT, I realized that silk is somewhat elastic and that I should take that into account when measuring the woven cloth under tension. I'm going to add 5%.
Thank you again.
Nicole