From roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Wed Aug 30 16:49:24 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by admin.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k7UMnOjb007240; Wed, 30 Aug 2006 16:49:24 -0600 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l.rootsweb.com [66.43.16.22]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k7UMnMvd013520 for ; Wed, 30 Aug 2006 16:49:22 -0600 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l [127.0.0.1]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id k7UK8nFI027807 for ; Wed, 30 Aug 2006 16:08:49 -0400 Received: (from roots-in@localhost) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) id k7UK8nQ7027806 for roots-approved@rootsweb.com; Wed, 30 Aug 2006 16:08:49 -0400 Received: from lists5.rootsweb.com (lists5.rootsweb.com [66.43.27.41]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with SMTP id k7UJKFFI027679 for ; Wed, 30 Aug 2006 15:20:15 -0400 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id k7UM0ccs028428 for roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com; Wed, 30 Aug 2006 16:00:38 -0600 X-Envelope-From: neal4@comcast.net Wed Aug 30 16:00:38 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by admin.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k7UM0cjb028419 for ; Wed, 30 Aug 2006 16:00:38 -0600 Received: from sccrmhc11.comcast.net (sccrmhc11.comcast.net [63.240.77.81]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k7UM0XPd010250 for ; Wed, 30 Aug 2006 16:00:34 -0600 Received: from wd080a (c-67-175-229-124.hsd1.il.comcast.net[67.175.229.124]) by comcast.net (sccrmhc11) with SMTP id <2006083022002901100875v7e>; Wed, 30 Aug 2006 22:00:29 +0000 Message-Id: <3.0.3.32.20060830165922.00b4c100@mail.comcast.net> X-Sender: neal4@mail.comcast.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.3 (32) Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2006 16:59:22 -0500 To: ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com From: Neal Underwood In-Reply-To: <200608300846.k7U8kItq026196@lists5.rootsweb.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 Sender: roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Subject: [ROOTS-L] 105 year old christening gown I don't recall if this subject has been discussed here before, but storage of heirloom fabrics has requirements not unlike archival storage of photographs. Especially important is use of acid/lignin-free and PVC-free materials. Ordinary writing and printer paper likely contains wood and acid-based materials, so that should not be put in the same package containing the fabric. Google on topics such as fabric preservation to find websites with a lot of information about this subject. One that I found quickly that seems to have a good basic discussion is: http://www.fabriclink.com/Heirloom.html > >X-Message: #16 >Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2006 14:53:09 -0500 >From: Judy Brown >Subject: 105 year old christening gown > >.... > >Again, I would like to thank everyone who gave support and suggestions to >me. I have saved them all, they will also be packed with the gown so the >history of the gown is more complete. >