Susan Reishus wrote: > I am knitting white tip towels and hand towels, and when asked what I am doing, > the first comment is, "Oh that will be hard to clean!" when I feel it is quite > the opposite. My sister got similar comments to her queries about why most > things were white, when buying heirloom pieces for all the family in Belgium. > The sales clerks said you can get white really clean and remove stains, but > really hard with anything else.
I was given this advice: the safest thing to wear, when eating spaghetti with tomato sauce, is a good white cotton or linen shirt; because you can boil and bleach that and get it back to white, where a manmade fabric would hang onto the stain in spite of any treatment which was safe for the fabric. Margery. ======================================== [email protected] in North Herts, UK ======================================== - To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [email protected]. For help, write to [email protected]. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003
