Does anyone know?

[isabelladangelo]

After YEARS of searching, I have found the absolute more perfect fabric for a dress I've been dying to remake...again. :-) The only problem with it is that it's gold and not silver in color. Real gold, like the metal, not just the color. I know gold is next to impossible to tarnish but I was thinking, maybe, soaking it in lemon juice and then lying the fabric out in the sun might bleach it just a little? I don't mind a light gold color for the project (it would actually be perfect) but this is really...gold. The problem is that it's the exact embroidery and type of fabric I've been looking for since ummm...2002? Probably even earlier than that really. I'm thinking I'm just going to buy the fabric anyway (despite that it's rather expensive) but I'd like to know if anyone has tried this before or if anyone would have any idea if it would work with a silk/gold metal weave....

If you know of a good forum to ask this question, please tell me too or just cross post it over there.

Comments

[sstormwatch.livejournal.com]

Well I am dying to find out where you found this fabric.

But if it is gold, then what is it woven with, silk? wool? I would not want either to degrade in the sun or have an acid placed on it, and silk will degrade in the sun. And true gold metal is usually a composition of gold plating over silver &/or copper rods before being drawn into the thinness of metal thread. So it won't bleach into a lighter shade, sorry.

[isabelladangelo.livejournal.com]

Oh well, good to know! Thanks! I added a new post on the subject of the fabric here (http://isabelladangelo.livejournal.com/433366.html). :-) I found it while I was extremely bored at work. I saw the image of it and just about screeched with joy at the office. ...which would have been interesting.