To Wash String-Coloured Lace.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXIX, Issue IX, 30 August 1902, Page 573

To Wash String-Coloured Lace.

First of all. don’t use ammonia, and don’t rub soap on the lace itself. Dissolve soap jelly in warm water in which you can comfortably bear your hand—a heaped tablespoonful to a gallon—add half a teaspoonful of borax: put the lace into it, and let it soak about ten minutes. Souse and squeeze it till clean; rinse first in warm water and then in cold. Squeeze as dry as you can, and iron

while still wet on a board covered with three or four thicknesses of tlaiinel and one of calico. laty the hue on the Ixiard right -ide downwards. and pull into shape. Spread a piece of calico over and iron with a modeiatey hot flat till the lace is aliout halt dry. Take away the top calico and finish ironing. pressing well to throw up tin- pattern. For the first two washings it will probably lie: p its colour all right, but after that dip it in a weak solution of tea after the final rinsing, then squeeze and iron as before. if hung out to dry it would probably "run" ami look patchy when ironed. Ironing while still wet gives just the necessary stiffness, so no starch is needed.