Washing Coloured Fabrics

Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6625, 11 August 1931, Page 9

Washing Coloured Fabrics

There is always a danger that coloured materials may fade in the wash, and look worse instead of better for tho attention. To avoid this, soak the clothes first in the colour-setting solutions mentioned below. Turn a pailful .of cold water into the -washing bowl and dissolve in it a quarter of a pound of salt. Into this solution put any black fabric you have to wash, and leave it to soak for a time. . When brown or grey fabrics are to be laundered use the same amount of salt in the soaking water, and add also an ounce of alum. Add a cupful of vinegar to the cold water in which you soak blue materials Soak green things in cold water to which you have added an ounce of alum for each pailful. These solutions should have the effect of preventing colours from “running,” but, of course, they must bo-used only for such materials as will stand soaking in cold water and ordinary washing. After soaking squeeze gently, but avoid wringing, and hang the material on a line out-of-doors- to dry, beforo washing in the usual way.