Template:Did you know nominations/Textile bleaching

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The result was: withdrawn by nominator, closed by Victuallers (talk) 21:48, 11 August 2021 (UTC)

Textile bleaching

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Early method of bleaching cotton and linen goods on lawns.

• ... that bleaching is possible without chemicals, were we not more sustainable in the past than we are now? were using oxygen of the air and that given off by green plants in bleaching
  • ALT1:... that during the pre-industrial era, clothes were bleached in the air and sun?

5x expanded by RAJIVVASUDEV (talk). Self-nominated at 10:12, 1 August 2021 (UTC).

• Rejecting nomination. Article has not been expanded by 5x. Looking at the current version, vs right before expansion began, it looks like the prose has only been expanded about 2.5x. The hook also does not work, because it seems more like an opinion than a factual hook. BuySomeApples (talk) 23:09, 6 August 2021 (UTC)

Noted with thanks. RV (talk) 02:05, 7 August 2021 (UTC)