Daily Rome Shot 1261 – starching

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I have started to renew my corporals.  It has been quite a while.  I found a couple languishing which had gone sort of yellow.  Therefore, I gave them a good soak in Oxyclean and then set about the starching.  I had in the past used a combination of rice starch and white olive oil soap to obtain a beautiful shiny gloss.   However, I remembered that one priest in the combox said he used just liquid starch and it worked.  I tried that.

Smoothed out wet on a pane of glass.

Dry this morning.  You can see through the linen that underneath the glass I put a rubbery sheet to make sure the glass wouldn’t move it bumped.

Peeling it off.  It came off with difficulty, not at all like when I used also the oil soap.

I used magnets to hold the edge tight.

Peeled.  It has no glossy surface at all on the side that was against the glass.  It feels quite rough.

Folded.

It is rather hard, which is good, but it is rough to the touch.  The point of having the glossy, glassy finish is that you can both see and catch up particles of a Host easily using the paten.

I will not use this corporal.  Instead, I will try an experiment.  I’ll liquify some oil soap and blend it into the liquid starch.  Maybe that will work.

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