UNBLEACHED LINEN.
HOW TO WHITEN IT. (By Hazel Brown.) There is a perfectly simple method of bleaching linen that involves only the use of ordinary washing-day materials and methods. An essential preliminary, however, is to soak the linen overnight in cold or warm water. Put sufficient water into the copper next day to allow the linen to steep in it, using four ounces of washing soda to each gallon of water. Then boil the linen in this for a couple of hours. Rinse, and dry out of doors. Repeat the boiling process for another two hours, using fresh sodawater. Rinse thoroughly in cold water. Wring through the mangle.
The next process is to prepare u bleaching solution by mixing one part of any good bleach to 10 parts of cold water. Leave the linen in this for 15 hours, again taking care to see that all parts of :l are thoroughly immersed Rinse in warm water, which completes the actual bicaching process. To ensure that every trace of the solution has been removed from the fabric, however, it should be treated exactly as you would deal with soiled linen on washing day. That is to say, it should be washed, boiled, rinsed and blued, and then dried out of doors. Some unbleached linens yield the first time to this treatment; others require two or three treatments before they are absolutelv white.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 39, 9 May 1927, Page 5
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231UNBLEACHED LINEN. Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 39, 9 May 1927, Page 5
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