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To Wash Red Flannel
To wash red or scarlet flannel when soiled, mix a handor scarlet flannel when soiled, mix a handful of flour in a quart of cold water, and boil ten minutes. Add this to some warm suds, and wash the flannel gently; rinsing rather cost is but a trifle. than rubbing it (see No. 493), rinse it in three or four warm waters, and the brightest scarlet In getting up muslins and piqués, the failure 500. To Starch Muslins and Piqués. will never lose its color. Soft soap or olive is not generally in the washing, but in the soap should be used for woolen goods in prefer- starching. A ence to bar soap. soap should be used for woolen goods in prefer- starching. A good-sized panful of starch ence to bar soap. 496. Scotch Method of Washing Woolen Shawls . Scrape 1 pound soap, boil it down in sufficient water. When cooling, beat it with the hand; it will be a sort of jelly. Add 3 table-spoonfuls spirit of turpentine, and 1 of spirit of hartshorn. Wash the articles well in it, then rinse in cold water until all the soap is taken off, then in salt and water. Fold between two sheets, taking care not to allow two folds of the article washed to lie together . Iron with a very cool iron.
Shawls done in this way look like new. Only use the salt where there are delicate colors necessary to iron on the right side. that may run. spermaceti candle has been melted whilst hot. should be used, in which 3 or 4 inches of The articles should be thoroughly squeezed from the starch, and folded whilst wet, between folds of old sheeting or table linen.
They should then be passed through a wringing machine. All lumps of starch are thus removed. ble, and the iron ought never to come into Piqués should be ironed as lightly as possias lightly as possicontact with the outside surface of the piqué.
An old cambric handkerchief is the best thing to use under the iron where absolutely 497. To Make Starch for Linen, Cot- and Book Muslin. Starch for laces should 501. To Clear-starch Lace, Cambric ton, &c. To 1 ounce of the best starch add be thicker and used hotter than for linens. just enough soft cold water to make it (by After the laces have been well washed and rubbing and stirring) into a thick paste, care- dried, dip them into the thick hot starch in fully breaking all the lumps and particles. such a way as to have every part properly When rubbed perfectly smooth, add nearly or starched. Then wring all the starch out of quite a pint of boiling water (with bluing to them, spread them out smooth on a piece of suit the taste), and boil for at least half an linen, roll them up together, and let them rehour, taking care to stir it well all the time, main for about half an hour, when they will to prevent its burning. When not stirring, be dry enough to iron. Laces should never between the hands, as it injures etc. Also keep it covered when removed them. Cambrics do not require so thick from the fire, to prevent a scum from rising starch as net or lace. Some people prefer cold upon it. To give the linen a fine, smooth, or raw starch for book-muslin, as some of this glossy appearance, and prevent the iron from kind of muslin has a thick, clammy appearsticking, add a little spermaceti (a piece as ance if starched in boiled starch. Finc laces large as a nutmeg) to the starch, when boil- are sometimes wound round a glass bottle 'o ing, and a tea-spoonful of the finest table- dry, which prevents them from shrinking. salt. If you have no spermaceti, take a piece of the purest, whitest hog's lard, or tallow on the Line. Fold the fine articles and roll 502. Το Fold Clothes after Drying (mutton is the best), about as large as a nut- them in a towel , and then fold the rest, turning meg, or twice this quantity of the best refined them all the right side outward. Lay the colloaf sugar, and boil with the starch. In iron- ored articles separate from the rest. They ing linen collars, shirt bosoms, etc., their ap- should not remain damp long, as the colors pearance will be much improved by rubbing might be injured, and starched fabrics are apt them, before ironing, with a clean white towel, to mildew. Sheets and table linen should be dampened in soft water. The bosom of a shaken and folded.