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| before renovation |
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| and after. Margaret embellished a vintage silk cloth, and used the original stuffing and lace. |
It has been established that the stuffing was, in fact, kapok, as most of you indicated in your comments. I bought a bag of kapok on ebay to use in a future project so we just compared the two.
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| kapok |
Thanks to all of you who weighed in with your thoughts.
8 comments:
Margaret did a beautiful job restoring the pin cushion. I had never heard of kapok except as an alternative to down in ski coats. Interesting!
Margaret did a great job on the pin cushion. Keep the original lace and stuffing is terrific idea - thanks Deanna for the update - Hugs Nat
The pin cushion is lovely, this kind of conservative restauration is the best when it is so skilfully done.
kapok........my mother used it to stuff everything but never heard the word since then.
XXXm
A lovely restoration!
yes a lovely restoration, sympathetic to the original. nice to see the after pics too Deanna, thanks.
Something very nostalgic about handling kapok, it always did give a nice result, glad its still available!
I love how your friend has transformed the pin cushion....
awesome. was that stuff easy to come by at that time in that area? i've never heard of this stuff before.
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