I washed my lovely soft wool scarf in the machine on a 40 wash and ordinary washing powder (and fabric softener). Now it's all crunched up and tough to feel.
Can I still rescue it?
Please help.
The label says dry clean only :-(
2006-07-07 20:01:44 · 15 answers · asked by Dorthe 1 in Home & Garden ➔ Cleaning & Laundry
its probably ruined but you can try some hair conditioner, it may help to stretch the fibres back out a bit.
2006-07-07 20:29:08 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Scarf Machine
2016-12-10 15:34:22 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ooooh, bad news. I don't think there's much you can do. This is called felting, and it's why you don't wash wool in a 40 cycle with ordinary washing powder. Get yourself a new scarf?
For future reference: you can HAND WASH wool, even if it says "dry clean only." Use shampoo and luke warm water, being careful to avoid any sudden temperature changes in the water. Avoid wringing or scrubbing, just gently press the suds through the fabric, rinse in the same manner, and lay flat to dry.
2006-07-07 21:40:39 · answer #3 · answered by smurfette 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think that if you soak the scarf in cold water with a whole lot of hair conditioner and slowly try stretching it back into shape it might help but it takes like a week of soaking and stretching I saw my mom do it with a wool sweater that went into the washer by accident. She laid out flat in the utility tub and wet it down with cold water and started covering it in gobs of hair conditioner and let it sit for a several hours then she came back to it and added a little more water to it and started stretching it back into shape.Then plugged the sink and added just enough cold water to cover the sweater to keep the conditioner from drying out.
Then she'd come back to it and pull it into shape some more and leave it and add a little more conditioner and some more water and she kept working it for several days. It went back into shape.
If you insist on washing wools yourself
the rule is always cold water and woolite, most things need to be handwashed as well, and left flat to dry without heat.
I hope you can save the scarf but you may need to just scrap it and start over new.
2006-07-20 06:03:40 · answer #4 · answered by honeyb33 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sorry but the scarf is toast. You can wash wool; but it's more of a "soak-wash" & a "soak-rinse" thing...NO Woolite ! Wool is hair, and loves shampoo and even a DAB of conditioner in the rinse. Roll in a heavy towel, dry flat, NO heat.
2006-07-11 18:01:48 · answer #5 · answered by madamspinner2 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, if anything can help you, Woolite may be able to. They advise soaking the woolen item in Woolite, then hand washing gently and stretching gently. On the other hand, you may have just ruined a scarf. Sorry about that!
(Moan about it a lot, and see if you get some nifty new scarves for Christmas....)
2006-07-13 07:57:48 · answer #6 · answered by old lady 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
rewash it in hot water and rince in fabric softener. Do not put in the dryer. Voila you now have a felted scarf. Felted wool items are the next rage.
2006-07-16 17:38:55 · answer #7 · answered by Martin 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
rewet it and lay it flat, outside in the shade to dry, rubbing out the wrinkles with you hands. When it dries completely, cover with tissue paper and use a dry iron over the tissue. to smoothe out.
2006-07-18 15:48:19 · answer #8 · answered by ValleyViolet 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Take it to a dry cleaner, if it can be repaired they will know how
2006-07-13 21:25:38 · answer #9 · answered by Ed M 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try using Dryel and rewash it.
2006-07-19 07:24:37 · answer #10 · answered by ucyimadiva 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋