A Soiled Sachet
Dear Aunt Daisy, ? I have a pink organdie handkerchief sachet the top of which is formed by the organdie cut in pieces and rolled up to represent a flower petal. I am desirous of cleaning it and think that if I wash it in the usual way the organdie will be * limp. Can you tell me how to clean it
3 so as to preserve its stiffness?
E.J.
N.
You are quite right in not washing the organdie sachet, as washing it would take the curl out of the petals, as well as the stiffness frqm the organdie. The only thing to do would be to sprinkle it. thoroughly with powdered magnesia from the chemist, wrap it in a towel and leave it for three or four days. Then shake out all the powder. Or you could get some dry cleaning fluid, isuch as car-bon-tetra-chloride, or pure good benzine
and shake it up with that-then put it to dry outside. Be very careful of FIRE if you use benzine.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 428, 5 September 1947, Page 27
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172A Soiled Sachet New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 428, 5 September 1947, Page 27
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