Originally Posted by
ragamuffin
I just tried to get stains out of an antique quilt. I used the a quilt soap "Restoration" out of Lancaster, Pa. and followed what was on the label. Hardly anything happened to the stains. Then I used Oxi-clean and some of the stains came out and it whitened it some. (I did not let it dry inbetween) Then I used Mom's old-fashioned method, spraying water on the stains, turning it upside down and laying it on the green grass in the sun. Wonderful!! I did it 2 different days, spraying the stained areas and not letting it dry. I am very pleased with it. It is so nice and soft. She told me it is the natural chlorine and Grandma had used this method on the old cloth diapers and it kept them white. Try it, I am very pleased.
Your post surprises me, because I have always been very satisfied with Restoration. Just this morning I soaked a circa 1930 quilt top in Orvis, and rinsed it until the water was clean. The muslin in this top was still very uniformly brownish, and I wasn't sure if it was really that color or not, so I soaked it for about 5 hours in Restoration in the bathtub, rinsed it out, and now I can plainly see the muslin is typical unbleached muslin, but definitely not brown anymore. The colors are nice and bright now, too.