Sun-streaked Linen
Dear Aunt Daisy, Ig there any method of removing sunstreaks from linen material? I recently washed my two-piece summer suit and when I went to the line to turn it, it was badly streaked. Fortunately the coat was facing inside to the sun and the skirt could be turned, but it is inclined to show right through. It is a
mustard yellow colour.
Tarara-ite
The only thing you can do is to dye the costume. The colour has been bleached out in those streaks so cannot be treated as we do colours which have "run." You can buy good English aniline dyes for eighteenpence a packet, and follow the directions. People who have never done any dyeing find it quite easy to do, and you can have the same colour as before by, diluting the dye or mixing two colours-perhaps yellow and brown. If the streaks are really pronounced, you may have to use dye-remover first, otherwise the re-dyed suit will have darker patches.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 22, Issue 555, 10 February 1950, Page 23
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166Sun-streaked Linen New Zealand Listener, Volume 22, Issue 555, 10 February 1950, Page 23
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