a couple summers ago I put a couple dozen award ribbons in a shoe box. Painted the room they were hung in. I took them out to finally re-hang and many have folds and crinkles in them and do not look good when hung. what is a good way to smooth out an old crinkled ribbon so it may be hung again?
Dampen a small cotton towel, lay it over the ribbon and iron the towel. The steam from the dampened towel combined with pressure takes out the wrinkles. Using an iron directly on the ribbon will probably melt your ribbon.
Oh - perfect.
Just great.
Know I spend a lot of my time trying to train one up, and learning to train one up to get a ribbon, and Mr. Bora looks for info on how the "fix" the crinkled up ones he's got in "storage"...you know,.. the ones' he's "forgotten" about in an old shoe box.
After reading this, the dog put his arm around me and gave some words of encouragement.
Goosers woodworking has me wanting to build a couple framed,
glass covered type boxes for some passed on dogs.
With all the types of ribbon gathered. Even those bland orange ones
I've got boxes of ribbons from upland hunt trials. I use the iron thing to straighten them out. The only ones I have hanging are special meaning ones, like Dog of The day honor.
I also recommend going with a lower setting on the iron at first, you can always turn it up, but if you start too high and scorch or melt your ribbon it's too late!
Just used mine to iron a couple of ribbons for a display. The rule around here is if it has been in the ironing basket for 3 years I don't need it so out it goes.
Married 34 years and never had an iron until yesterday. Husband bought one to apply veneer to a speaker cabinet he is making. He tried to get me to do it 10 years or so back, but only his stuff needed ironing. He learned pretty good.
That's two different questions... One more problematic for a middle age single guy;-)
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