Originally Posted by
Lori S
Do be careful that even flouresant bulbs will fade fabric. A friend hung a quilt in her office .. no outside source of light .. the only source was the overhead fixtures... and it faded. If you are redoing your room I would get solid doors on the area where you store fabric.
Last summer I helped redo my Mom's sewing room... so much fabric had been damaged from sunlight and artifical lights.. it was a real shame . I put together some tall cabinets with doors so the fabrics can be protected from light and dust. My sewing room I only have the ability (currently) to put a sheet over the fabrics to protect them... its a pain and looks ...terrible. It is on my list of things to do to redo my fabric storage area.
Museum use incandesent lights not flouresant over works of art , as the incandesant lighting does cause fading.
It is hard to get all the lighting we love for sewing, but at the same time it is harmful to the fabrics we love/collect.
thank you, that would have been my nxt question...flourescent. i tried the sheet thing when, after pulling out fabs to preview for nxt project, noted the fading on treasures that i had saved for just the right project. sheet is so ugly
so..used the samples i stitched up out of colorful poly blends that i use to test my block patterns...i draft my own blocks & mostly use my own patterns for my quilts. didn't take too long for the uglies to hide away lollol. but, alas, to lighten moving load..i got rid of all poly fabs, all but my precious cottons. but a few panels of colorful polyblrpend fabs would look better than yuck sheets??