Hi Jo,
You might try acrylic matte media. Place the crepeline over plastic, paint your line and after it dries, cut through the painted edge. This should be a little less shiny than using an adhesive.
Beth Szuhay
Textile Conservation
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
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> From: Textile Conservators on behalf of Joanne Hackett
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> Subject: Stabilizing the edges of silk crepeline?
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> I am interested to learn favored methods of stabilizing the edges of cut
> silk crepeline. Does anyone have a neat way to do this? I am
> particularly interested in methods that don't involve forming a rolled
> hem.
> Has anyone ever used Aquazol to stop the edge of the silk from
> raveling?
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> Joanne Hackett
> Textile Conservation
> Indianapolis Museum of Art.
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