TO PRESS SILK.
Silk cannot be ironed smoothly, so as to press out all creases, without first sprinkling it and rolling it up tightly in a towel, letting it rest for an hour or two.
If the iron is the least hot it will injure the colour; and it should be tried on an old piece of the same silk.
Bright-coloured silk or ribbons—such as pink, blues, yellows, greens, &c.—always change colour on application of hot iron.
Blacks, browns, olives, grays, look very well after ironing.
Silks should always be ironed on the wrong side.
Black silks may be washed in cold coffee, or tea, to restore them from rustiness.
The chemical olive soap injures silk less than any other preparation.
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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