Washing a Feather Tick Pillow

The Pioneer Household made our Spring Cleaning seem pure laziness!!   Scrubbing down floors, walls, furniture, windows (if present in the home) ...add to that the linens, rug and pillows.  Here is the correct way to wash and refill a  Feather Tick Pillow.  Providing, of course, you collected the feathers for your whole family's pilliows!



Washing the Tick of a Feather Pillow - Have the pillow tick washed very thoroughly and rinsed in plenty of water. When it is entirely dry, melt together bar soap and beeswax in the proportion of 2 parts soap to 1 of wax. Mix it well, then, having laid the tick inside out upon a large table or ironing board, spread the mixture on it with a knife as thinly as possible. Even a thick tick, when it is washed, does not hold the feathers as securely as before and the use of this mixture is to remedy this defect. 

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