Happy Thursday
fellow Hags! I have already mentioned that I am the Living History Coordinator
for a small park district in Ohio. That park district is the Hancock Park
District. This past Sunday we did a free public program on laundry and the focus mainly on how stains were removed before Billy Mays exploded on to our
television sets with Oxi Clean. I thought it would be nice to share some of
those results with those of you who could not make it out to the program.
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| Messy Mr. McKinnis! |
The first
stain I chose to tackle was a very common one in Northwest, Ohio during the the 1800’s, black walnut ink. As
you can see from the picture to your right, Mr. McKinnis was very upset by a resent article in Blanchard Star and felt it necessary
to write a strongly worded letter to the editor. In the middle of writing he became very upset. He went as far to even slam his fist down on the desk and sent ink. Not wanting to stain everything he grabbed the first thing he could find. One of his wife's table linens. Oh! What where you thinking Mr. McKinnis?!
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| Soaking in Milk |
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| After a Good Soaking |
To tackle
this mess I soaked the soiled napkin and after three hours it seemed to have lifted it a little bit. I was
unable to do a full 19th century washing session due to our wash house not
being fully completed so I admit that I took the cloth home and boiled it
with a little bluing on the stove in a pot.
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| After a washing |
You can see the results were not all that bad. You can still see a few dark spots but nothing near as bad as it was. I have also read that tallow can be used to take out ink stain. That is on my list to try next time for getting rid of ink.
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