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Fill a basin with very hot water and add a squirt of a low-pH detergent like quilt soap or original liquid Dawn. Stay away from hand soaps, Woolite or laundry detergents. Carefully lay the article on top of the water and let it soak in for a while. To rinse, empty the basin, carefully remove the article (avoid squeezing, twisting, rubbing, or letting the article hang vertically), refil the basin with clean water, and lay the item back down in the basin to soak. Drain. Repeat rinsing if desired. Remove the article, let it drain until damp, then lay it as flat and naturally-positioned as possible on a dry bath towel or drying rack. Let sit undisturbed until completely dry.
Explanation: Wool is very fragile when wet; the fibers stretch, shrink, and break more easily. Washing involves considerable agitation which will destroy delicate crochets. Dry-cleaning is a misnomer - it is very wet indeed - it simply does not use traditional soaps or detergents.
However, the water itself, even hot, does not cause fulling, shrinking, stretching or other damage; agitation does. Rubbing, pulling, pushing, etc, even by water currents, are to be avoided. The water simply softens the fibers allowing the agitation to cause damage. A high pH exacerbates this, so very alkaline water or highly alkaline cleaning agents (like the glycerin in traditional soaps) will magnify the effects of any agitation.
So, the trick in cleaning wool is to do so as gently as possible, disturbing the fibers as little as possible while wet, using a cleaning agent with as neutral a pH as is feasible.
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Can i wash a wool blazer?
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