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Blue Dior Dress
StainsUnravelingMissing Areas / Holes
Jan 31, 2019
Tanya Nakamoto
Staining drips throughout inner and outer layers. Seams on front undone in sports with holes visible. Eye closure on back missing. 3 blue outer layers + 1 multi-layered lining. Planned wash and dye.
Cleaning
Disassemble
Jan 31, 2019
Pics and stitches undone to remove inner lining from outer layers.
Wet-Clean
Feb 4, 2019 - Feb 5, 2019
Wash with mixture of Triton X, Vulplex, Orvus paste, enzyme surfactant, distilled water, and alcohol (500 mL soon: 2 qts alc: 1.5 gal water). Rinse with distilled water, wash dress layers, dyed while wet. Soaked in soda ash and salt cold dye overnight to remain wet before re-dye with hot acid dye next day. Soda ash with more concentrated dye test instead of hot acid dye version. Pale aqua color tested rather than original icy blue dye from previous day. Agitation every 10 min. After 20 min, add soda ash. After 2 hours remove, turn over. Tie dying effect formed. Re dyed with Marine Blue (Soda Ash).
Humidification
Feb 6, 2019
Steamed with 50% alcohol/50% distilled water. Photographed after dye.
Wet-Clean
Feb 6, 2019
Inner white layers washed
Hand Sewn Repairs
Feb 11, 2019 - Feb 13, 2019
Sewing of tears in seams of blue layers. Ironed blue layers. Sewing outer blue layers together.
