The Faded Patch
Dear Aunt Daisy, Could you tell me through The Listener if there is anything I could do about my carpet, which has faded very badly in one plate; otherwise it is as good as new. It is rust ir colour.
N.B.
N.
Hastings,
You could never get a dye to exactly match the rest of the carpet. People have dyed their carpets at home, on the floor, using a good brand of English dye, boiled according to directions, and then brushed on with a clean brush, to the clean, shampooed carpet, It must need great patience, but has often been successtully done, even using two and three colours, and putting in a border, and so on. A good boiling dye does not-fade. But I do not think you could ‘possibly do just a patch, without it being very evident. How about putting a mat or two down, one of them on the faded patch and another somewhere else, so that it does not appear as if one has been specially put there? Has any other Link any suggestion?
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 25, Issue 634, 24 August 1951, Page 23
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181The Faded Patch New Zealand Listener, Volume 25, Issue 634, 24 August 1951, Page 23
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