Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 162, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 July 1916 — COLORING RUGS AND CARPETS [ARTICLE]

COLORING RUGS AND CARPETS

If Not Too Much Worn It Will Pay to Freshen Them—How It Should Be Done. If the faded ingrain or other carpet shows no boles, it will pay to color it After beating it and cleaning ail spots with soap and water or gasoline lay it flat on the floor and follow the directions on the package. Apply while hot with a scrubbrush. This will color one side. Fiber rugs and plain carpets may be freshened wonderfully in this manner. Use light blue on a blue rug, tan or orange for brown, light green for a green rug. Do not get the dye too dark or the rug will look muddy. To remove ink from a rug or carpet immediately sop sweet milk over the spot and dry as much as possible with a dry cloth. Then apply gasoline to take out the grease that the milk would otherwise leave. To remove soot from a carpet sprinkle the spot with salt Let the salt remain on the spot for about twenty minutes, then sweep it hard with a broom. The spot will disappear.