Cleaning Panama Hat
Dear Aunt Daisy, Would you please tell me how to clean a panama hat which has been put away for some time. I would like to do it up for my little girl. The hat is very limp and yellowish. I cleaned it lightly with cloudy ammonia but it is not right. How can I stiffen it and make it white and shining, something like the new ones? "A Listener,’ Rangiora. Here are the methods I’ve been told but I cannot guarantee that the hat will look quite like new again. It will be very much improved. Make a saturated solution of borax and hot water (as much borax as the water will take up). Apply this hot with a soft brush. Put the crown of the hat over a pudding-basin, to hold it firm. When dry, brush off the crystals which will have tormed and the straw should be clean and quite a bit stiffer. One listener used alum instead of borax, by mistake, but she said the result was quite good. Or make a paste of powdered magnesia and cold water (not too wet), and brush that well into the hat with a clean nailbrush. Leave 24 ‘hours or so, till thoroughly dry, then brush off.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 720, 1 May 1953, Page 16
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211Cleaning Panama Hat New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 720, 1 May 1953, Page 16
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