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Originally Posted by maccor
I second the use of iron-on patches. My curtains are 40+ years old. I've had to use the patches and they work great! They are strong enough to even repair ripped chain pockets. I get the black ones at Wal-Mart (4"X6")and usually cut them in 1/2 or 1/3 length wise. I use a small formica topped desk as an ironing surface and put them on the upstage/non-velour side. I've spanned existing seams without a problem. If you are careful about laying the 2 curtain sides together before ironing, you can't even see the patch. Especially since velout tends to rip in a straight line, they are a good fix. The art dept. probably has an iron you can borrow. Some of the repairs are 3 years old and the curtains get a lot of rough use all year long.
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Really, 40 years... If you wanted to you could play the flame proofing game and see if you can not get some new goods, but at the same time you could just lose the goods all together. Those things are probably shedding very badly, and are basically tinderboxes hanging in the air. You might want to start investigating new soft goods strictly from a
safety standpoint, unless you sent them out to be flame proofed in the last few years and still have documentation on that.