What’s on the Removing Stains poster
A 8-row table: Stain · Treat with.
Treat from the back of the fabric, pushing the stain out.
- Blood — COLD water first, then soap
- Red wine — Blot, salt or cold water, then oxygen bleach
- Grease and oil — Washing-up liquid, then hot wash
- Coffee and tea — Cold water, then detergent
- Ink — Alcohol or hand sanitiser, blot
- Grass — Detergent, then oxygen bleach
- Sweat marks — White vinegar soak
- Deodorant — White vinegar, then wash
Blood and egg are protein stains: hot water cooks them into the fibres. Always cold water first for both.
Questions about the Removing Stains poster
- What’s on the Removing Stains poster?
- A 8-row table: Stain · Treat with. Treat from the back of the fabric, pushing the stain out. Blood — COLD water first, then soap; Red wine — Blot, salt or cold water, then oxygen bleach; Grease and oil — Washing-up liquid, then hot wash; Coffee and tea — Cold water, then detergent; Ink — Alcohol or hand sanitiser, blot; Grass — Detergent, then oxygen bleach; Sweat marks — White vinegar soak; Deodorant — White vinegar, then wash. Blood and egg are protein stains: hot water cooks them into the fibres. Always cold water first for both.
- Who is the Removing Stains poster for?
- Removing Stains belongs to the Practical skills section rather than to a school year, because life skills is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning textiles can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.
- When should you use the Removing Stains poster?
- Never put heat on an untreated stain. Drying or ironing sets it permanently. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Removing Stains belongs on the wall where that life skills work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
- What other posters go with Removing Stains?
- Making Clothes Last, Fabrics and Hand Stitches sit alongside Removing Stains in the Practical skills section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.Making Clothes LastFabricsHand Stitches
- Is the Removing Stains poster free to download and print?
- Yes. Removing Stains downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Practical skills section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence
- What size does the Removing Stains poster print at?
- Removing Stains is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Removing Stains loses nothing.Printing guide
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