Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 195, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 September 1917 — Test Before Dyeing. [ARTICLE]

Test Before Dyeing.

If all goods were pure there would be fewer dye troubles. Satin is often nothing but cotton with ’ a silk face, silk is sometimes doctored to such a degree that there is little of the pure material in it, mercerized cotton masquerades as linen, and cotton is given the appearance of wool. Home dyers should know how to test materials in order to know • the special kind of dye for the fabric. Always fray a few threads each way of your goods and apply a match. ..Cotton flames up anil burns like a bit Of punk without odor; wool just singes, does not flame and the odor from it Is that peculiar to animal fibers; silk burns less freely than cotton. A piece of silk weighted heavily with chemicals if set oh fire will have all the stlk burnt off, and the piece of material will be left ip its original shape, and this kind of so-called silk wiTC come from the dyepot a limp nig.