Originally Posted by
quilt queen
somewhere in the back of my mind, I remember my Mother using vinegar to cut bleeding in fabric.. have any of you heard this and does it work? I would like to have a "home" product to stop the bleedingirather than purchasing a new product...I like spending my money for fabric..can anyone relate to this way of thinking???
Fabrics were dyed with acid dye in your (our) mother's day and vinegar did work at that time. Today's fabrics are dyed with fiber-reactive dyes and vinegar has absolutely no effect at all on them. Neither does salt. It is chemically impossible for them to work. Sorry.
