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I have a lot of high dollar wool, and I store it in a very large pelican box with the walmart cedar lining the bottom of the box. I also purchased from walmart one of those delicate mesh laundry bag, and fill it with the cedar chips. I looks like a big cedar pillow and keeps the chips from sticking to my garments. It smells great every time I open it. I have purchased used wool that reeked of moth balls and put it in this box for a few days, and when I removed it the smell was gone. I haven't needed to clean my wool much. Just like the others, I wait for it to dry then brush it off. Hang outside in the winter sun works well too.
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I just through in a washer with cold water, no soap, LIGHT agitation and not even a full cycle agitation, just a COUPLE of minutes. Then I spin drain water out and hang dry. At times while drying, I stretch garment at main points (block drying).
The reason I dont use soap of any kind. Is wool has natural oils in the fibers and I dont want to wash those oils out.
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I've got mine bloody a few times and all I do is use cool water with no soap. Wash it by hand and rinse it as many times as neccessary til all sign of blood is gone from the garment and water, then hand wring and block (gentle streach and smooth) on a towel and let it dry. No shrinkage at all.
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how about pine branches with wool,,,, some of my regular cotton material stuff I cut some small pine branches and then tape the heck out of the ends that I cut so no sap leaks out and put the branches in the bottoms of the bags (contractor trash bags) with my hunting clothes. nobody mentioned pine with the wool so I'm curious..
also I always forgot to ask about this but when your wool gets wet it takes on a wet animal smell, hate to say dog but it does resemble a wet dog. wonder if this is good or bad down wind???
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