Loose Covers
Dear Aunt Daisy, In the October 19 issue of The Listener someone asks for a method of restoring to loose covers something of the "body" which they lose by washing. There is, I think, a much better method than using starch for this purpose, and that is to put some gum arabic, dissolved in hot water, into the final rinsing water, or if preferred, into a thin boiled starch. Gum arabic can be obtained quite
cheaply and easily from most chemists, and a very little is all that is required, but it must be thoroughly dissolved, and this takes some time, and is most easily done in a double boiler, or a bowl placed in a pan of boiling water. It may need to be strained, to get out the bits of dust.- A.C.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 8, Issue 195, 19 March 1943, Page 11
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136Loose Covers New Zealand Listener, Volume 8, Issue 195, 19 March 1943, Page 11
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