How to Clean Yellowing Fabric

If your favorite shirt or tablecloth has yellowed with time, you may be discouraged. The yellow stains can be caused by sweat, water or other items that have come in contact with your fabric. Yellowing can also be caused by age, just like paper takes on a yellowish tinge with the passing of time. Luckily, removing the stains from your fabric may just take one or two washes, and you can have your fabric back in top shape.

Things You'll Need

• Distilled white vinegar
• Clothesline
• Clothespins

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Instructions

1. • 1

     Wash you fabric on the hot setting. Add 1 cup of vinegar to the wash; do not add detergent.

   • 2

     Pour vinegar into the softener ball, softener reservoir, or add 1/2 cup of vinegar to the rinse cycle.

   • 3

     Check to see if the stains have faded after one wash; if not wash the fabric following the same measurements.

   • 4

     Hang the fabric out on a sunny day to dry, as the sun naturally bleaches the remaining yellow stains.