Abstract: A method of dry cleaning fabrics, for instance, draperies or clothing, in situ, by forcefully infusing the fabric in the open atmosphere with special fast-acting, versatile dry cleaning solvent so as to dissolve and suspend various stains and soils in the fabric, even though firmly set due to age, and promptly drawing ambient air and droplets of soil-laden solvent by suction into a closed waste and suction chamber where the soil is deposited in the form of a sludge, while the carrier air and solvent is discharged to the atmosphere. A special, highly effective, fast-acting, nonflammable and nontoxic solvent is provided.