Take a quantity of sharp small beer or ale put therein a quantity of
alloes & a quantity of gallinger as aforesaid make it boyle 3 or 4
walmes untill ye alloes be dissolved then take a piece of woollen cloth
dip it therein and wash over your chairs and stools therewith then
put them to dry this will kill all the moths though bred in the seats
amongst feathers flox or wool and refresh any colour’d cloth or stuff
turkey workes or needel workes not altering the property of ye colours
nor hurting the workes.
474. _To scoure and refresh the Colour of Cloth Carpets, Silk
Curtains, or any Stuff y^t is Stain’d or Soil’d._
Take a quantity of orgull break it to a small powder then put it into
some pewter platter then put it over a chaffendish of coles make it hot
then put your carpet or curtain abroad upon a table afterwards take a
brush made of swines hairs dip it therein and so rub over your carpet
or curtain therewith this will take away all the spots and refresh the
colour.