Using starch on netting

cuca

With summer coming up now, I have washed the mosquito nets for the childrens beds - I bought them new last year and they were quite a stiff net that held its shape nicely. Now that i have washed them (didnt use fc) they are all floppy so wont sit over the beds well. I have bought some starch that you dilute in water and can use in washing machine. But I didnt read the lable correctly and it says you have to iron the item to get it stiff with a hot iron. Surely if I iron netting on hot iron it will just burn a hole in it ??

Before I go ahead and waste the starch and risk ruining the mosquito net, does anyone have any tips or ideas for me.

Many thanks

Olliebeak

I used to buy 'Nets Whitener' that was very good at giving your nets that 'new/stiff finish' when they'd been washed. You had to fold them flat, wash them gently in a 'washing up' bowl of warm soap water', squeeze gently to get most of the water out, still keeping them flat - rinse in clean water to get rid of the soap, gently squeeze again and then lay them flat in the 'Nets Whitener solution diluted' for a while. Gently squeeze them when removing (to try and keep as much soaking liquid as possible for another curtain) and hung on a line to drip dry. No spinning or wringing! They always dried with a crisp finish on them. It would even revive older nets.

This product sounds similar and may just work for you: http://www.dr-beckmann.co.uk/net-curtain-whitener.asp

and this one: http://www.fabricuk.com/showspecial.php?id=34