Starch/spray starch is a vegetable product that increases the stiffness of fabric when applied. It is intended that the fabric then be ironed flat. Earlier forms of starch products needed to be boiled and cooled before applying to clean fabric. Now it is available in spray cans to be more easily applied to the cloth while ironing.
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WARNING: Avoid scorching. Starched fabrics scorch more easily.
Starched fabrics also yellow with age much more quickly.
Remember to test an area of fabric with starch before using in the actual project. Some fabrics will permanently stain with application of starch products. Silks and cotton damasks are especially easy to stain.
Fabrics stiffened with starch makes piecing and applique much easier.
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