[Scouring Fabrics]

Name: Yuan Yi
Date and Time:

2015.11.14, 3:00 pm

Location: Greenbelt, Maryland (52 F, sunny)
Subject: Making washing soda for scouring

- Placed baking soda on a dish
- Baked for an hour at 400 F
- I used this recipe to transform baking soda into washing soda:
http://www.pennilessparenting.com/2011/01/homemade-washing-soda.html#

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Name: Yuan Yi
Date and Time:

2015.11.14, 4:15 pm

Location: Greenbelt, Maryland (52 F, sunny)
Subject: Scouring cotton fabric

- Weighed the fabric: 177.8g (appr. 6 oz)
- Filled a stainless steel pot with 3 gal of tap water (minimum 0.5 gal of water per oz of fabric)
- Added 3 tsp of laundry detergent, 12 tsp of washing soda
- Placed cotton in the pot
- Bring to the boil
- Began to boil at 5:00. Lowered to simmer.
- Let simmer for 3 hours.
- Removed from heat and let cool ovenight

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Name: Yuan Yi
Date and Time:

2015.11.15, 10:00 AM

Location: Greenbelt, Maryland
Subject: Rinsing cotton fabric

- put 1T of woolite in 2 gal of tap water
- soaked degummed silk for an hour
- rinsed more than 10 times and air-dried.

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Name: Yuan Yi
Date and Time:

2015.11.15, 2:00 PM

Location: Greenbelt, Maryland
Subject: Cleaning silk fabric

- Placed a table spoon of

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• note time
• note (changing) conditions in the room
• note temperature of ingredients to be processed (e.g. cold from fridge, room temperature etc.)
• document materials, equipment, and processes in writing and with photographs
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• note precisely the scales and temperatures you used (please indicate how you interpreted imprecise recipe instruction)
• see also our informal template for recipe reconstructions

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