Originally Posted by Joyce DeBacco
I'd heard or read somewhere that if you clip the corners of your fabric before washing it would prevent fraying. I always do that, but they still fray. Would they fray even more if I didn't do that?
It never worked for me.
I pink large pieces of fabric and wash smaller pieces in lingerie bags. Minimal fraying, less than a quarter inch on each cut side.
When washing silk or rayon for garments, I ran the cut edges through the rolled hem attachment on my sewing machine. It's essentially a straight stitch done on a tiny double fold of the fabric, so once I got the knack of how to feed it through the rolled hemmer attachment, I could zip through the length in no time. There was absolutely no fraying with rolled hems and I lost a total of one eighth of an inch of fabric on each end.