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To make Flannels keep their colour, and not shrink.
Put them into a pail, and pour boiling water on, letting them lie till cold, the
first time of washing.
To preserve Furs and Woollen from Moths.
Let the former be occasionally combed while in use, and the latter be brushed
and shaken. When not wanted, dry them first, let them be cool, then mix among
them bitter apples from the apothecary's, in small muslin bags, sewing them in
several folds of linen, carefully turned in at the edges, and keep from damp.
To dye the linings of Furniture.
Buff or Salmon-colour, according to the depth of the hue.--Rub down on a pewter
plate twopenny-worth of Spanish arnatto, and then boil it in a pail of water a
quarter of an hour. Put into it two ounces of pot-ash, stir it round, and
instantly put in the lining; stir it about all the time it is boiling, which
must be five or six minutes; then put it into cold pump water, and hang the
articles up singly without wringing. When almost dry, fold and mangle it.
Pink.--The calico must be washed extremely clean and be dry. Then boil it in two
gallons of soft water, and four ounces of alum; take it out, and dry in the air.
In the mean time boil in the alum-water two handfuls of wheat-bran till quite
slippery, and then strain it. Take two scruples of cochineal, and two ounces of
argall finely pounded and sifted; mix with it the liquor by little at a time.
Then put into the liquor the calico; and boil till it is almost wasted, moving
it about. Take out the calico, and wash it in chamberlye first, and in cold
water after: then rinse it in water-starch strained, and dry it quick without
hanging it in folds. Mangle it very highly, unless you have it callendered,
which is best.
Blue.--Let the calico be washed clean and dried; then mix some of Scot's liquid
blue in as much water as will be sufficient to cover the things to be dyed, and
put some starch to it to give a light stiffness. Dry a bit to
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