Scouring Fancy Shawls
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A short 1872 household-advice item giving a recipe for scouring tartan shawls, suggested as safe for Paisley plaids. It describes making a soap jelly with turpentine and hartshorn, washing, rinsing in cold water and then salt water to prevent colours running, and mangling and ironing with a cool iron.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- 1872
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 1
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From Ralph Griswold's Digital Archive, delivered by the University of Arizona.
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