3 Sentences With "washing blue"

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Bluing, laundry blue, dolly blue or washing blue is a household product used to improve the appearance of textiles, especially white fabrics. Used during laundering, it adds a trace of blue dye (often synthetic ultramarine, sometimes Prussian blue) to the fabric.
Reckitt and Sons was already a successful firm when Ferens joined it in 1868. It produced household wares such as starch, washing blue and black lead. It had been acquired by Isaac Reckitt, a Quaker, in 1840 and was now run by his sons, also Quakers, George (1825–1900), Francis (1827–1917) and James (1833–1924). Ferens was industrious and forward-thinking; he moved swiftly through the company's managerial ranks.
Initially establishing a milling business in Boston with his older brother and then a corn business in Nottingham on his own, Isaac Reckitt acquired a starch-making business in Hull in 1840. Under his leadership the business diversified into black lead and washing blue manufacturing. By the time of his death in 1862 the business employed 210 people and had become one of the most successful businesses in Hull. The firm was left equally to three of his sons, George (1825–1900), Francis (1827–1917) and James (1833–1924).