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Stain Removal From Fabrics: Home Methods

Stain Removal From Fabrics: Home Methods

by Margaret Smith Furry

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About this eBook

Author
Furry, Margaret Smith, 1899-1986
Title
Stain removal from fabrics : home methods
Credits
Stephen Hutcheson, Lisa Corcoran and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net
Language
English
LoC Class
TP: Technology: Chemical technology
Subject
Textile fabrics -- Cleaning
Category
Text
Project Gutenberg
eBook-No. 65430
Release Date
May 23, 2021
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.Stain Removal FROM FABRICS.
  2. 2.To Remove Stains Successfully
  3. 3.STAIN REMOVAL FROM FABRICS HOME METHODS
  4. 4.Steps to Success in Stain Removal — Treat Stains Promptly — Suit the Remover to the Cloth — Cotton and linen — Wool and silk — Rayon and synthetics — Suit the Remover to the Stain — Water — Other solvents — Absorbent powders — Bleaches — Pepsin and other enzymes — Soaps and synthetic detergents
  5. 5.Stain-Removal Supplies
  6. 6.Removing Individual Stains — Acids — Adhesive Tape — Alcoholic Beverages and Soft Drinks — Alkalies — Argyrol — Blood — Bluing — Candle Wax, Colored — Candy — Carbon Paper — Chewing Gum — Chocolate and Cocoa — Cod-liver Oil — Coffee and Tea — Dyes and Running Colors — Egg — Fingernail Polish — Fish Slime — Flypaper, Sticky — Fruits and Berries — Glue and Mucilage — Grass and Other Fresh Garden Foliage — Grease and Oils — Ice Cream — Ink — India or drawing ink — Printing ink — Writing ink — Iodine — Iron Rust — Linseed Oil — Lipstick and Rouge — Meat Juice or Gravy — Medicines — Mercurochrome — Metallic Stains — Mildew — Milk and Cream — Mimeograph-Correction Fluid — Mucus — Mud — Mustard — Paints—Oil Paints, Varnishes, Enamels — Pencil Marks — Indelible pencil — Lead pencil — Perspiration Stains — Rubber Cement — Salad Dressings — Scorch — Shoe Dressings — Soap — Soot and Smoke — Sugar Sirups — Tar, Road Oil, Asphalt, Axle Grease, Pitch — Tobacco — Tomato Juice and Catsup — Urine — Walnut (Black) — Water Spots — White Sauces, Cream Soups
  7. 7.Index to Stains
  8. 8.Transcriber’s Notes

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