To Wash Delicate Ribbons Monologue from Love in a Wood

From Love in a Wood by William Wycherley

any · contemplative · 51 sec

Immerse in salt and water, and dissolve shavings of Ivory soap in boiling water till like jelly when cooled slightly. To a little of this jelly, add warm water to form a good suds, add a pinch of borax, put the ribbon in and squeeze back and forth through the hands till clean. Then rinse in warm, then in cold water, roll smoothly in a towel and in about two hours, press between paper. Gasoline is fine for cleaning ribbons. Do not use gasoline indoors. Ribbons and silk may be scrubbed with Ivory soap and gasoline, rinsing in clean gasoline.

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