Delicately colored socks and stockings are apt to fade in washing. If
they are soaked for a night in a pail of tepid water containing a half
pint of turpentine, then wrung out and dried, the colors will "set,"
and they can afterwards be washed without fading.
For calicoes that fade, put a teaspoonful of sugar of lead into a
pailful of water and soak the garment fifteen minutes before washing.