SOME DRY-CLEANING TRICKS.
Often, when cleaning, it will be found that the colour of a materia! will bo slightly lightened. If the bleaching is not too noticeable "die colour may be restored by nibbing the fnbj-ic with a piece of cloth .barely moistened with neatsfoot. cot-ton-seed, or olive oil. • Before brushing over the light spot rub the moistened cloth on anot'.er several times to remove most of the oil. This is done after the dry-cleaning process, and must be repeated each time the garment is cleaned. To give crepes and other silk materials new lustre dip them in carbon tetrachloride, or petrol containing four or five drops of one of the above oils. This is also done after they have been cleaned. Water stains on silks generally can be* removed by scraping the edges gently with the finger nail or rubbing carefully with a rather stiff brush, such, for instance, as a new toothbrush.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20320, 31 January 1928, Page 14
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