To renovate faded and soiled maroon repp furniture covers, proceed thus. Strip the gimping, then with an old screwdriver knock up the tack heads sufficiently to allow them to be gripped with a pair of pincers; care must be exercised so as to damage the cover as little as possible. The majority of repps are very poor and threadbare at the back, owing to the thick diagonal cord being forced up with the weft yarn, leaving only the warp yarn slightly bound to form the backing; therefore the best method would be to have the covers French cleaned. Then put new gimp on the chairs; old gimp is not worth the trouble of relaying, unless it is of excellent quality.