To Whiten Woollies
Dear Aunt Daisy, I have been able. to buy some white wool for baby knitting, but instead of being pure white, it has a dingy look, as if imperfectly bleached. Washing with soap flakes in the usual way has no effect. I wonder if you could suggest any way I could bleach it in the skein before knitting it up: Also I have a pair of blankets which returned from the laundry very yellow, and I would be grateful if you could tell me how to wash them so that they will become their original cream.
C.M.
H.
Christchurch.
For the blankets I would mix up a bowl-full of soft suds made with very hot water, a packet of soap-flakes, a good tablespoon of borax and about 3. tablespoons ammonia, Mix it up into a good lather, and then empty it into a tub of cold water, This will make the latter luke-warm, soft and soapy. Stir it well up before putting in the blankets.
Leave them to soak in this all. night, and next day, after working them about thoroughly in the water, put them through the wringer-to get all the water out properly-and then rinse them in two (or even three) clean waters, each being luke-warm and having a good tablespoon of borax mixed in, Then dry in a good breeze, Borax is a g00d whitener. P For the dingy white wool make up a kind of thin paste with warm water and powdered chalk, allowing twice as much powdered chalk, by weight; as the garment or wool. Knead the garment or wool well in this; afterwards wash and dry as usual. Use borax in the washing and rinsing, as for the blankets,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 18, Issue 448, 23 January 1948, Page 23
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288To Whiten Woollies New Zealand Listener, Volume 18, Issue 448, 23 January 1948, Page 23
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