TO KEEP BLUE CALICOES BRIGHT AND FRESH.
The first time they are washed, put them in water with a cupful of spirits of turpentine to each pail of water.
This will set the colour, and they will always look well.
Source: HINTS FOR HOUSEHOLDS. (1890, May 9). Port Adelaide News and Lefevre's Peninsula Advertiser (SA : 1883 - 1897), p. 4 (SUPPLEMENT TO THE PORT ADELAIDE NEWS).
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