- Use warm, not hot water
- Use the best quality detergent or soap-flakes. If the water is hard, it is advisable to use a detergent
- Put only one woollen garment at a time through the suds.
- Squeeze the suds gently through and through the wool. Use no action except squeezing. Never rub.
- Keep the garment down in the suds while squeezing – don’t keep lifting a woollies up and down with a weight of water in it.
- To get the dirty suds out of a woollies, again use only a squeezing action of the hands. Never twist – wring. Avoid lifting out the whole garment with a weight of water in it.
- Rinse thoroughly.
- Squeeze the clear water out by hand, and then put the garment, folded flat (not in a bunch) through a wringer with rubber rollers, or roll it in a towel pressing the towel on to the woollies – NEVER twisting.
- Draw the woollies into shape.
- When putting woollies to dry, remember that there is still some weight of moisture in the wool, so the garment should not be supported at only one point, the rest of it hanging. Please over two or more slats of an airer or dry flat if you have space.
Sunshine (which bleaches cotton) is NOT good for wet woollies. It tends to make white wool yellow and may cause slight hardening of the wool.