Regency Tips: Cleaning Spots from Cloth and Silk

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To take Spots of Ink or Wine out of Cloth or Linen Rub the juice of lemon on the spots and when it is dry let it be washed in warm water If you do so twice the spots will disappear in cloth but if it is linen put fome boiling water into a pewter pot hold that part that has the spot tight together over the steam then rub it with the juice of lemon and the spots will difappear To keep Silk from staining in washing Fill a fauce pan with water and let it stand on the fire till it is partly hot then diffolve in it a proper quantity of Castile foap then take it off the fire and when it is almost cold put to it handful of fullers earth and scour your filk with it Be sure to let them be spread out for if they are laid in heaps together it will spoil them To keep Linen not used from receiving any Damage When it is washed and well dried fold it up in the neatest manner scatter between each of the foldings powder of cedar wood and let the trunk drawer or box be perfumed with storax To take Spats out of Boards or large Tables Make some lye of wood ashes and put in it a few galls then lay it on the spots and let it lie on them one night in the morning rub the boards or tables with a hard bruth but if it is on the floor you do it on your knees Take care you rub it with the grain and at the second scouring put on it a handful of fine fand and rub it over with a woolen cloth till none of the spots can be feen When you have brought them to a fine tranf parent
parent colour let them be washed with cold water for if done with hot water it opens the grain and spoils their appearance

Recipe and tips for cleaning textiles appeared The Ladies Best Companion; Or, a Golden Treasure for the Fair Sex (1800).

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