Some goods come into the market with no further treatment after starching other than running through a mangle with a little softening and then drying, but in the great majority of cases they are subjected to further operations.
When the whole piece is to be impregnated the operation is conducted in a starching mangle, which is similar in construction to an ordinary household mangle, though naturally larger and more elaborate in construction.
Ere these unexpected funds were spent, she got to her ironing and starching again.
I mean not thestarching and ironing; that takes a woman and a handy one.
Starching the beard was an operation which occupied some time if carefully performed.
Proper drains under washing and starching machines, so that there are no wet floors.
The actual process of handstarching may be learned in less than one hour.
The best-paid work, the hand starching of shirts and collars and the hand ironing, is done by Irish women, by colored women, and by Italian and Jewish men.
In starching rub the feathers around well between the hands for the purpose of getting all the flues thoroughly expanded, squeeze out of bath and hang on lines to dry.
In fact, it is impossible to smooth out a conversation from memory without stiffening it; you can't have a dress shirt look quite right without starching the bosom.
Flora was starching muslins, mother had seen me off to my room, and then went to hers, when down I crept in my stockin feet as usual, puts a chair into the chimney corner, and we sat down and repeated our lessons.
Kittie gained admittance, and found Cherry starching some things on the centre table.
Cherry took her compliments very calmly, ironing and starching were such every-day things to her; but when she heard what Kittie wanted she looked very serious.
Therefore the finishing process includes brushing, very light starchingor sizing, then calendering or pressing.
Then the goods are dried on a tenter frame, given a lightstarching to add weight, run through a rubber rolled mangle and again dried on a tenter frame.
But when they are to be finished with a starching after the last ley, they must have another dip of the chlorine to render the white more perfect.
The same directions answer for clear starching crape, (which must first be bleached as flannels are done,) and add some drop lake to the blue coloring.
Margaret Bean was famous for her fine starching in the village; it was her chief domestic talent, and she was faithful in its application in all possible directions.
If any mending is required do it before starching them and when clean.
There was one book then in course of preparation which Mary thought worthy to have been read, even in those literary clear-starching days.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "starching" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
