TO CLEAN BLACK SILKS.

To bullock’s gall, add boiling water sufficient to make it warm, and

with a clean sponge, rub the silk well on both sides, squeeze it well

out, and proceed again in like manner. Rinse it in spring water, and

change the water till perfectly clean, dry it in the air, and pin it

out on a table; but first dip the sponge in glue water, and rub it on

the wrong side; then dry it before a fire.