Originally Posted by
IBQUILTIN
I don't usually prewash except fabrics for baby quilts, I think you may have changed my mind. Most of the fabric from overseas has to be fumigated before entry to the US and I don't make baby quilts with it without washing first.
I worked in 2 LQS for several years, we never found anything gross or even unusual in our fabrics. We had everything from Bali batiks to fabrics from China, Korea and Japan ...
NEW fabric (on bolts from the manuf) comes very tightly wrapped in plastic ... maybe there's a process unknown to us, but I don't think fabric could be "fumigated" before it enters the country ???