Hello Fiber folks, I hope one or more of you can help me out. Last
year, I bought (cheap) an Australian Border Leicester fleece from the
previous year's shearing. It was a nice long fleece, with good texture
and color, but full of mud. Let me say that I've been processing yukky
fleeces for
Lynn & Terry Chapin wrote:
Anybody have a clue what happened and what I can do to retrieve this
fleece?
Hi Lynn -
I can't guess what might be causing the tacky fleece, but
when my hair needs residue washed from it, I use baking
soda, vinegar or both. Choose a sample and sprinkle it with
Anybody have a clue what happened and what I can do to retrieve this fleece?
One possibility might be to add some alchol (plain, drugstore, rubbing
alcohol) to a hot, soapy wash. Sometimes that seems to work on sticky
stuff.
And don't forget some vinegar - a glug or two - in the rinse to help
It sounds as if, perhaps (hedging my bets here), all the soap did not get
rinsed out. Perhaps if you were to just rinse it, in really hot water, the
tackiness would rinse out, also.
wrnk
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At 02:37 PM 1/22/2006, you wrote:
Hello Fiber folks, I hope one or more of you can help me out. Last
year, I bought (cheap) an Australian Border Leicester fleece from
the previous year's shearing. It was a nice long fleece, with good
texture and color, but full of mud.
Ya, know.. it's the *
Hi Fiberfolks,
Here at the mill we use Sam's Club, powdered detergent in the 5 gal bucket.
Works great. It is high alkaline and that is what breaks down the grease.
It actually turns it into soap. Hot water over 140 degrees. On really
greasy fleeces we use Amway's, industrial degreaser in the seco
