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The dye board was almost clean. I was down to pressing freshly washed silk gauze and organza. Life intervened, again. A chance note on a list brought two lovely ladies to my door. Two, vintage, restored, 1955 General Electric mangles have new homes. A good, 5000º Kelvin, twin tube, fluorescent on a rolling stand, the one I kept falling over, went to a new home.

So, I continue working on my spring cleaning. I did get the silks ironed and put away until I get time to dye and paint and use them for a nuno base. Look at the silk I found in the cleaning. There should be enough to make a very classy tunic.

Then I ran across this off cut.

Good thing I got so much cleaned up. Here’s what the dye board looks like after removing all the things that were stacked on top of the mangle.