This may seem self explanatory, but what I've seen on the occasional clothesline tells me it's not. There is more passed on knowledge, and experience, involved in drying laundry that apparently isn't getting handed down. So just to have this information in print... here we go.
Wash anything which you would rather minimize it's fading, in cool water. If you have hard water, washing in
rainwater does amazingly better for wool, silk, cotton, linen, dishes, pots, and hair. Our well water is very hard, so it messes with many things, laundry just being one of those. In my opinion, machines are meant to save wear and tear on the back, shoulders and hands. Plus allow you to get more accomplished in the same amount of time spent. Therefore, my two prefered seam finishing are meant to be done entirely on the machine, not by hand. Both of the seams below protect the seam allowance from fading, when the garment is hung to dry, turned inside out.
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