REVIVE YOUR CARPET

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21296, 24 September 1932, Page 6 (Supplement)

REVIVE YOUR CARPET

" Why, you've had your carpet redyed !" exclaimed Stella when she came to see me a few days ago. " W as it very expensive ?" " It cost exactly twopence," T replied laughing. "If you look carefully you'll see it's not, been to the dyers', otherwise the preltv beige border would have been dyed, too." " Tell me about it," said Stella eagerly. " Well, the blue centre of the carpei was so badly faded that it looked positively shabby, and had I not been so fond of the beige border I should have sent it to the dyers' ages ago. Then one day I had a brain-wave. I bought a saxe blue dye the exact shade of my carpet, and mixed it, in a basin with a breakfast-cupful of hot water.

" I next put. on a pair of rubber gloves to protect my hands, and taking a piece of flannel I had previously dipped in warm water, I dipped it in the dye until it was soaked with it, and then wrung it out tightly. Then I rubbed the carpet over with the damp flannel, doing a small piece at a time, and in a very few minutes I had done the whole carpet. " The flannel must not bo too wet, otherwise tho result will be patchy. " This has been done two months now, and at the end of summer I shall do it again for the winter." " Thanks for a most valuable hint. 1 think I'll go now and on ray way home buy a rose-pink dye and do my bedroom carpet straightaway."