Yellow Organdy Baby Slip

Yellow Organdy Baby Slip

I found this child's garment in an antique shop. It is the slip worn with a more ornate dress for a small child dating to around the 1950's. The fabric is Organdy and I was intrigued with painting its transparent quality. I can remember wearing Organdy as a child and the fabric was very uncomfortable, but looked wonderful, crisp, and full. I wanted to know about Organdy and found the following information.

Organdy is very fine transparent cotton with a stiff finish. Crispness is due to a finish with starch and calendering which washes out, or a permanent crispness obtained with chemicals (Heberlein process). Calendering is a finishing process used on cloth where fabric is folded in half and passed under rollers at high temperatures and pressures. This polishes the surface and makes the fabric smoother and more lustrous. Fabrics that go through the Calendering process feel thin, glossy and papery. The Calendering finish is easily destroyed, and does not last well. Washing in water destroys it, as does wear with time.

Organdy wrinkles badly unless given a wrinkle-free finish bellmanizing which is a starching process. It may be bleached, dyed, printed, frosted, flocked, embroidered, or plisse, (a textile finish of permanently puckered designs formed by treating with a sodium hydroxide solution).

Oil on canvas board

14" X 11"

$770.00, plus shipping

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