Lay the gloves upon a clean board, make a mixture of dried
fulling-earth and powdered alum, and pass them over on each side
with a common stiff brush: then sweep it off, and sprinkle them well
with dry bran and whiting, and dust them well; this, if they be not
exceedingly greasy, will render them quite clean; but if they are
much soiled, take out the grease with crumbs of toasted bread, and
powder of burnt bone: then pass them over with a woollen cloth,
dipped in fulling-earth or alum powder; and in this manner they can
be cleaned without wetting, which frequently shrinks and spoils them.