WASHING AN EIDERDOWN.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20402, 2 November 1929, Page 6 (Supplement)

WASHING AN EIDERDOWN.

This is a good time of the year to wash your eiderdown quilt, arid doing so at home is a simple affair if the following instructions are carried out:— Choose a good day, with a brisk, drying wind, and allow plenty of time for the job, as the quilt will need attention whilo drying. Make a soap jelly by simmering one pound of shredded soap with rufficient water to cover. It forms a jelly when cold. Shako the quilt well, then soak it for half on hour in cold salted water. Squeeze it well in this, and if tho water becomes very dirty, repeat tho process in fresh cold water. Half fill a tub with warm water, adding a tablespoonful of liquid ammonia and enough soap jelly to make a frothy lather. Squeeze out the quilt, then put it into the lather, working it about between the hands. Bepeat if the quilt is very soiled. Then rinse, first in warm, then in cold water. Squeeze as dry as possible, or put through a loose wringer. The eiderdown is now apparently a lumpy wreck, but will become plump again when dry. Hang over tho line, altering it several times, and shaking vigorously whilo drying. When dry, put a damp doth over a portion of it, and press with a warm iron. Finally, beat it, gently with tho hands or a carpet heater.