104. To wash white sarsenet.
First take your Sarsenet and spread it very smooth and strait upon a board, and spread Soap upon those places that are soiled, and afterwards take a hard brush that is small, and dip it in Water, and make an indiffe∣rent thick Lather, and with the brush rub your Sarse∣net well with it the right way of the Silk, and when one side is well washt, wash the other also, then make a clean Lather scalding Hot, and put in your Hoods double into it, and cover it up, and so fast as you wash them into it, give them 3 good Washes upon the board, and after the first Lather, let the rest be very Hot, and cast them in a Scald every time, then make up a Scalding∣hot Water, and after you have Steeped some Water of Gum-Arabick, put it therein, adding thereunto-some smalt to blue it a little, let the Hoods be doubled up therein, and close covered for an Hour, and when you take them out, dip them very well all over, and fold them up in a very small Compass, and smooth them very well betwixt your Hands, till they be more than dry, after you have smoothed them over Brimstone, then smooth them with Hot-Irons, the way you washed them, and upon the right side of the Sarsnet.