DRY WASH
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DRY WASH TURPENTINE BASED CLOTHES WASHING SYSTEM
Dry Wash cleaning was discovered and patented by Jolly-Bollin. He was a French tailor, in 1849. Significantly, Initially the method was empirical. In fact, the stained dress was unstitched, the dirty part was cleaned with turpentine and, therefore, everything was stitched up. People had to wait until the end of the 19th century to find a way to dry clean clothes without disassembling them.
Already in the 1800s professional tin pickers operated in the area, turpentine was used for cleaning. However, turpentine oil was too expensive to fill a whole container with and clean dirty clothes in it. At the beginning of the 19th century, whale oil lamps were replaced by turpentine oil lamps in France, so turpentine became relatively cheap and could also be used to clean clothes. The French paint master Jolly Bellin understood this and opened in 1825. Acceptance of dry cleaning works in Saint-Denis near Paris. He dipped the articles of clothing completely in turpentine oil and then treated them with a brush. They started talking about “French laundry”.
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