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How To Un-Shrink
a Wool Sweater
By: Aldo Ciarrocchi |
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Sometimes it happens to us all,
in a careless moment we throw our brand new wool sweaters in
the washing machine or dryer, shrinking them down about eight
sizes and rendering it un-wearable to all but our children’s
action man or Barbie Doll. |
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Luckily I have a contact with
some inside knowledge on this matter so I asked my friend Mark
Shenton owner of http://www.woolovers.com
if there was a way to un-shrink a wool sweater, he started laughing
even before I could finish my question.
Well people today’s your
lucky day, I have used the information this Shenton character
gave me and mastered the black art of wool un-shrinking and am
here to share it with you.
Here we go….
When wool gets wet and warm,
the fibres in the wool lock themselves together and don't want
to let go, resulting in shrinkage (you can get wool warm or wet,
but not both), which kind of makes washing wool garments a dangerous
business. |
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To un-shrink the wool, soak
the garment in warm water with a mild soap for about 10 minutes.
This unlocks the fibres in the wool. Then lay the garment out
on some towels in a cool place. Stretch the garment out to its
original dimensions. The stretching pulls the unlocked wool fibres
away from each other. Allow it to dry. The absence of heat from
the drying process allows the wool fibres to set in place without
locking together and shrinking the garment again.
That it, long story short: you
will have a brand new, fully functional sweater again. |
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