Chicken bald back

[soapdragon]

A plea for advice! I am sorely tempted by a beautiful Weird Fish velvet coat on E Bay which says that its washable. Being 100% cotton I guess it should be but the pitfalls of washing velvet set me wondering....I couldn't face ironing it! Has anyone got a velvet coat? Do you wash it? Does it hang to dry and not crease?

 

Oh, the dilemma! It finishes at 3.00pm tomorrow and is exactly 'my' shade of cornflower blue........

[Alis girls]

Sorry can't help

[Blackrocksrock]

Bought real cotton velvet curtains many years ago, I decided to wash them, they washed beautifully. Over the years were turned into door curtains and dyed in my machine washed and tumbled dried, threw them out 3 months ago after 35 years of wear if that helps.

[dancing cloud]

Sorry I came to this too late

 

I have a Boden velvet coat that washes beautifully. Out of the machine straight on to a hanger and hung outside. Mine hasn't creased but you could always iron it on the wrong side if needed.

 

Did you risk it?

[soapdragon]

Thanks for that...no, DancingCloud...it went for £23.00 plus £5.65 p and p and I had set myself a limit of £20 so, though I was tempted, I restrained myself. However, they do come up fairly regularly on E Bay so I will keep an eye out now I know about the Boden coat

[dancing cloud]

The Boden coat was an ebay bargain, as it's black, gold and red velvet in a paisley pattern, and they were selling it in summer . It doesn't look much on the hanger, but the catalogue showed it on a model of similar colouring to me (though 1/2 the width and twice the height) and it looked great on a person.

 

I wore it a lot the first winter and then decided to take the risk of washing as it had cost so little. All good