Thin starch water is good to wash fading calicoes in, but it is rather hard to get them clean in it; no soap is necessary.
Calicoes should not be washed in very hot suds and soft soap should never be used, excepting for buff and yellows, for which it is the best.
Calicoes that incline to fade, can have the colors set by washing them with beef's gall in clear water previous to washing them in soap suds; a small tea cup full to a pail of water is the right proportion.
Yellow calicoes should be washed in soap suds and not rinsed.
Calicoes must be unstarched and prints must be of fast colors.
There is also a good market forcalicoes and prints.
Let the calicoes remain in till the water is cold.
When calicoes incline to fade, the colors can be set by washing them in lukewarm water, with beef's gall, in the proportion of a tea-cup full to four or five gallons of water.
The water that potatoes has been boiled in is an excellent thing to wash black calicoes in.
All kinds of calicoes but black, look better for starching, but black calicoes will not look clear if starched.
I have never seen this tried, but I think it not improbable that it may be an excellent way to set the colors, as rinsing calicoes in cold salt and water serves to set the colors, particularly of black, blue, and green colors.
In 1773, he set up weaving workshops making pure cotton calicoes which were as good as Indian calicoes.
Then it became the fashion to use calicoes for curtains, cushions, chairs, and beds.
He had confronted and solved the problem of a statute of 1721 which proscribed wearing or using printed, painted, stained or dyed calicoes e.
If you don't fancy any of these things,' said the civil shopkeeper to Susan, 'we shall have a new assortment of calicoes for the spring season soon from town.
I have by two or three opportunities acquainted you that I received the calicoes you ordered for me, by Sampson, though many of them were much injured by being wet.
Indian traders have sold their cotton calicoes in the Spice Islands for years.
They say nine-tenths of all muslins andcalicoes are sold for exportation.
In 1793 the Company state the internal consumption of India calicoes and muslins to be reduced in Britain to almost nothing.
Black or very dark calicoesshould be stiffened with gum arabic--five cents' worth is enough for a dress.
For calicoes that fade, put a teaspoonful of sugar of lead into a pailful of water and soak the garment fifteen minutes before washing.
Dead leaves an' a white house don't 'compose,' as I heard you say one day to a woman about two calicoes that was contrary to each other.
The next day she asked Caleb which, if any, of the calicoesin the store were least salable; the cheapest, commonest stuff possible, for kitchen wear.
I'm sure I didn't design the combination of calicoes; the idea was far older than the calicoes themselves.
A cargo of calicoes was duly obtained, whereupon the Globe departed for Bantam and the Far East to seek spices and pepper in exchange.
And a pitiful display it was, gaudy calicoes and flimsy flannels, the brilliance of whose colour was only equalled by the shoddiness of the material, cheap domestic blankets, half wool half cotton, prepared especially for the Indian trade.
With childish glee they began examining more closely Raven's supply of goods, trying on the rings, draping themselves in the gaudy calicoes and flannels.
They were none of the slimsy, composition-filled, aniline-dyed calicoes of to-day.
In early days calicoes were not common, but every one had woollen garments and pieces, and the quilts made of these were of grateful warmth in bleak New England.
It is as well manufactured as thecalicoes of Europe.
The 30th we found much injury done to the wheat in our bread room by wet; also of our coarse dutties, or browncalicoes of Pormean, we found twenty pieces quite rotten.
Within five or six days we had unladen her of 950 packs of calicoesand pintados, or chintzes, besides many packages of other merchandise.
There is prospect for employment as long as calicoes are used.
A manufacturing company of lawns and calicoes in Providence, R.
The price generally paid for a design pattern for calicoes is from $1 to $3.
A manufacturer of cotton cloths for calicoes writes: "Women and girls are employed in power-loom weaving.
Only so far back as 1789, doubts were entertained whether cotton could be cultivated in the United States, while now the amount of calicoes annually produced in the United States is supposed to equal twenty millions of yards.
Calicoes should be thrown into the rinsing water as fast as they are washed.
Nice calicoes and ginghams should be dried in the shade, and so put upon the line as to dry quickly.
After hanging out the woollens, wash the calicoes in clean water, with hard soap, and rinse them twice.
Calicoes should not be sprinkled till the morning of the day they are ironed.
Remember that soda must not be used in washing calicoes or flannels.
If the calicoes fade more than you had reason to expect, very likely they are washed in boiling suds.
I always had some; When the Madras-kerchiefs came, I always had some; When the printed calicoes came, I always had some.
The pretty printed calicoes (indiennes) that used to be two francs and a half the metre, now sell at twelve sous the metre; but nobody has any money.
With a greatness of pleasure, but His Excellency has commanded me at eleven o'clock and will I be through the tasks at the hour for escorting those calicoes out to your Club for a dance?
Say, let's get out of this politics soon, go in for selling timber lands, marry two of the calicoes and found families.
Say, Bobby, are you in for side-stepping the chiefs at eleven-thirty and going with me to take a nice bunch of calicoes out to the Country Club for a little midday sandwich dance?
At the time of our visit several consignments of calicoes had been made to England and to various British markets, and sold at prices considerably below what they could be produced at by English manufacturers.
With such primitive reasoning did Singing Stream put the horses to the light wagon, and, taking the little Judith with her, drove to Deadwood, a matter of two hundred miles, to buy the bright calicoes that were to make her like a white woman.
Sally, as usual, wore one of the rose-colored calicoes with the collar turned well in and the sleeves rolled above the elbows.
Parliament and people were jealous of cotton, lest it might prove a rival to wool, and actually prohibited the introduction of printed calicoes (so called from Calicut in India whence they were exported).
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