After-the-War economy : the story of a woman's adventures in the art of home-dyeing profitable home-dyeing with Drummer dyes (1920)
Wm. Edge & Sons Ltd · Bolton : Wm. Edge & Sons · leaf 6
4 DRUMMER DYES After that you would lift it up and down with a swishing movement, just as if you were ‘blueing a fine embroidered skirt, and meant to keep it from being the tiniest bit patchy. It is best to use a clean stick … pO Le os in plenty of clean cold water, childven’s frocks. Squeezed; then hung out. One has to be ve2ry caretul where one puts the pegs: they should be fixed on skirt bands or curtain hems, or places where the little marks left by them will not show; and again one has to be very care- ful never to…
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