Try Javelle Water
Dear Aunt Daisy, I have a request I would like you to answer in your columns of The Listener, I have a pair of embroidered linen wagon covers which I’ have somehow got mildew on. I tried the soap and starch method, but it didn’t seem to work. Have you any other way? Thanking you in _ anticipation-
Miss
P.
J.
You could try the Javelle Water method:--Leave Y2lb. chloride of lime to stand in 2 quarts of cold water overnight, Dissolve 11b. washing soda in a quart of boiling water and wher cold add to the lime water which has been very well strained through muslin. Use in the proportion of half and halt with plain water, soaking for a few hours, (continued on next page)
(continued from previous page) then wash the clothes in the usual way. Javelle water is only suitable for white clothes, as it is a bleach. However, the soap and starch way is really quite certain, but you may not have persevered long enough. Sometimes the mildewed materials have to be left out in the sun and rain for as long as two weeks. Watch them carefully, bring them in and wash them again frequently as they get dry, and re-smear with the starch paste; or use half starch and halt salt. This method is specially good for material which is mot white, and which may lose its colour with Javelle water.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 12, Issue 311, 8 June 1945, Page 22
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240Try Javelle Water New Zealand Listener, Volume 12, Issue 311, 8 June 1945, Page 22
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