| Madeira Hot Water Soluble Fabric (HWSF) is a very stable woven fabric designed especially for the free hand machine embroiderer. It is 111 cm wide.
When free hand embroidering onto HWSF, frame up as tightly as possible.
It is important to ensure that your stitched lock over each other so as to hold the design together when the fabric is dissolved.
The design may be traced onto the HWSF without difficultly. The density of stitching will depend on the type of work you are producing; different shapes can be achieved but do remember your stitches must be interlocked into each other. It may help to think of the construction of a spider's web when stitching onto HWSF.
To dissolve HWSF you need to immerse your embroidery in water, temperature 70?C - 80?C (158?F - 176?F), however it is important to bear in mind that not all threads are colour fast to these temperatures so test them before use. Always use high quality embroidery threads. You will find that HWSF will take 2-3 minutes to totally dissolve away from the embroidery.
You can commence the fabric destruction at lower temperatures than above but it will, of course, take longer to completely dissolve the fabric. This method offers other possibilities. The fabric can be moulded into shape by removing it from the hot water before destruction is complete and, while the fabric is in a plastic state, it can then be moulded and will hold its shape.
Do experiment with a small piece of fabric before processing to use it in your larger design work so as to familiarise yourself with its properties and speed of destruction, and how it handles in use.
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