A Mildew Problem
Dear Aunt Daisy, Could you please help me. I starched a coloured fancy-worked supper-cloth and damped it down for ironing, and then for a week forgot all about it. On opening it up I discovered it had become mildewed. Do you know any means of removing the mildew without taking the colour from the fancy work?
99 "State Forest:
Your best plan is to try the starchpaste method, which is very good and does not harm the colour. Just mix up starch and cold water into a paste-a little soap mixed in is advised by some people-and plaster it thickly all over the mildewed places. If the whole cloth is a mass of mildew, just soak it in the basin of starch paste-work it in with your hands and leave it for 24 hours; be sure that it keeps wet. Then wash out first in clear water and then in suds as usual. If plastered on just in mildewed parts, it is good te lay it. on the grass all night, thus keeping it damp.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 473, 16 July 1948, Page 27
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178A Mildew Problem New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 473, 16 July 1948, Page 27
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