Then, using tweezers, he burned a bit of the white cloth and analyzed its smell and the makeup of its ashes.
“If it pulls away too easy, that tells me that the fabric is weak,” he said. The minimal resistance he encountered was a good sign, he said. First, he tested its tensile strength by tugging on it slightly. With surgical precision, Schumann snipped the tiniest bit of fabric from an inside seam at the bottom of the gown. “There’s some really intricate tatting work - that’s handmade lace.” On a recent weekday, he worked on an 1898 baptismal gown that was remarkably white for its age and had a butterfly-shaped lace inset on its front. “I like it, but not as much as I like doing antique and vintage clothing.” When he’s not cleaning and preserving vintage clothing, Schumann paints custom designs on street rods and motorcycles. “I was always interested in my grandmother’s clothes. “I’ve always been interested in vintage clothes,” he said. He worked for Clean’n’Press, Don’s Leather Cleaning and Best Cleaning and Restoration before joining Treasured Garment Restoration last year. “I just kept praying that I could get out of that dirty, dirty business,” he said. He was working for a company that recycles contaminated soil when he decided it was time for a career change. Ironically, a job in dirt led Schumann, 37, to dry-cleaning. It’s absolutely stunning.” The bill came to $126.84. “They cleaned it and got out all the old bacteria and old stains. “He didn’t have to do much,” Schille said. Schumann cleaned the gown in early April. She called the Minnesota Historical Society, and a curator referred her to Schumann at Treasured Garment Restoration, a division of St. The christening gown, circa 1876, had yellowed and had tiny tears in the fabric caused by “bacteria from baby spit-up and other things,” said Melissa Schille, of South St. Harrison, age 6 months, will be wearing it. James on the Parkway in Minneapolis during Harrison Derek Schille’s baptism. One of Schumann’s latest cleaning coups will be on display this morning at the Episcopal Church of St. He also regularly spruces up costumes for the Minnesota Opera and the Guthrie Theater. If you donate an antique wedding gown to the Minnesota Historical Society or the Goldstein Museum of Design at the University of Minnesota, chances are Schumann will clean it. For the past 12 years, he has cleaned and cared for some of the state’s most historic outfits. Schumann is the restoration manager of Treasured Garment Restoration in Stillwater. Duane Schumann has removed an ink spot from Prince’s pants, cleaned Tiger Jack Rosenbloom’s suit and taken care of the clothes in the “Titanic” exhibit.
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