Directions For Washing Woollens Recipe

If you do not wish to have white flannels shrink when washed, make a

good suds of hard soap, and wash the flannels in it, without rubbing any

soap on them; rub them out in another suds, then wring them out of it,

and put them in a clean tub, and turn on sufficient boiling water to

cover them, and let them remain till the water is cold. A little indigo

in the boiling water makes the flannels look nicer. If you wish to have

your white flannels shrink, so as to have them thick, wash them in soft

soap-suds, and rinse them in cold water. Colored woollens that incline

to fade, should be washed with beef's gall and warm water before they

are put into soap-suds. Colored pantaloons look very well washed with

beef's gall and fair warm water, and pressed on the wrong side while

damp.

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