461. To Raise the Nap on Cloth

461.    To Raise the Nap on Cloth. Soak in cold water for 1/2 an hour, then put on a board, and rub the threadbare parts with a half-worn hatter's card, filled with flocks, or with a prickly thistle, until a nap is raised. Hang up to dry, and with a hard brush lay the nap the right way.

462. To Renovate Black Crape

462.    To Renovate Black Crape. Skim-milk and water, with a little bit of glue in it, made scalding hot, will restore old rusty black Italian crape. If clapped and pulled dry, like fine muslin, it will look as good as new.

463. To Raise the Pile on Velvet or Plush

463.    To Raise the Pile on Velvet or Plush. Hold the wrong side of the velvet over the steam arising from boiling water, until the pile rises - or dampen lightly the wrong side of the velvet and hold it over a pretty hot iron, not hot enough to scorch, however : or, make a clean brick hot, place upon it a wet cloth, and hold the velvet over it, and the steam will raise the plush.

464. To Restore Creased Ribbons

464.    To Restore Creased Ribbons. Creased ribbons may be restored by laying them evenly on a board, and with a very clean sponge damping them evenly all over. Then roll them smoothly and tightly on a ribbon block, of greater breadth than the ribbon, and let them remain until dry. Afterwards transfer to a clean dry block. Then wrap in brown paper, and keep until wanted.

465. To Wash China Crape Scarfs

465.    To Wash China Crape Scarfs. If the fabric be good, these articles of dress can be washed as frequently as may be required, and no diminution of their beauty will be discoverable, even when the various shades of green have been employed among other colors in the patterns. In cleaning them, make a strong lather of boiling water, suffer it to cool; when cold, or nearly so, wash the scarf quickly and thoroughly, dip it immediately in cold hard water in which a little salt has been thrown (to preserve the colors); rinse, squeeze, and hang it out to dry in the open air; pin it at its extreme edge to the line, so that it may not in any part be folded together. The more rapidly it dries the clearer it will be.

466. To Wash a Black Lace Veil

466.    To Wash a Black Lace Veil. Mix bullock's gall with sufficient hot water to make it as warm as you can bear your hand in, and pass the veil through it. It must be squeezed, not rubbed; and it will be well to perfume the gall with a little musk. Rinse the veil through two cold waters, tinging the last with a little blue. After drying, put it into some stiffening made by pouring boiling water on a very small piece of glue; squeeze it out, stretch it, and clap it. Afterwards, pin it out on a linen cloth to dry, laying it very straight and even, and taking care to open and pin the edge very nicely. When dry, iron it on the wrong side, having laid a linen cloth over the ironing blanket.

Any article of black lace may be washed in this manner.