Renovating a Faded Raincoat
Dear Aunt Daisy, Would you please give me the instructions how to renovate boys’ navy raincoats? I read in your Listener notes some months ago how it was done, but before I could rescue the magazine it was destroyed. I think the idea is to lay the coat on a table and, using a nail brush, do all the coat over with navy dye, but I am not sure whether the dye is to be boiled and salt added, the same as one would prepare a dye bath for any
other article: Yours sincerelv
J.
H.
(Ohura).
Yes, just make up the dye exactly according to directions on the packet. Our Link who gave us the method brushed the dye into her boy’s navy coat, using a table in the garden. Choose a breezy day, without much sun. I have checked this again. with the Link, and she tells me the coat is lasting splendidly, has never faded, has been wet many times, and is now handed down to a younger brother.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 11, Issue 285, 8 December 1944, Page 24
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176Renovating a Faded Raincoat New Zealand Listener, Volume 11, Issue 285, 8 December 1944, Page 24
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