Originally Posted by
Onebyone
I was taught in Home Ec that cotton fabric will shrink in only one direction. I think it was crosswise direction. I guess I could look it up.
After measuring hundreds of pieces of fabrics before and after washing them - I have found that most usually do shrink more in one direction than in the other. But it seemed to be about a toss-up as to which way shrank more often. Equal shrinkage in both directions did not happen very often,
Even a muslin that was labeled as "pre-shrunk" shrank drastically.
Of all those hundreds of pieces of cotton fabrics - maybe - possibly - ten of them did not shrink in either direction.