Stiffening Taffeta
Dear Aunt Daisy, Could you or your Daisy Chain please advise me how I could stiffen up a net evening frock and taffeta slip after washing it?. "Constant Listener" (Onehunga). Try using gum arabic in the rinsing water. Get I oz. from the chemist, and dissolve it in one pint of warm water. Strain through muslin and keep in a bottle. Add it to the rinsing waterfor net, in the proportion of about % pint of gum arabic water to a quart of the rinsing water; the taffeta having more "body" will need it less strong.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 7, Issue 175, 30 October 1942, Page 11
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97Stiffening Taffeta New Zealand Listener, Volume 7, Issue 175, 30 October 1942, Page 11
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