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 about 30 years. When it was time to wash this one, I
decided to try out a new (to me) washing method.
I soaked the fleece overnight in cold water with Dawn dishsoap in it (I
nearly always use Dawn for fleeces) as a prewash to try and get some of
the thick clay mud off. Then I washed as usual in hot water, spinning
in the washer. I rinsed in hot, and the fleece did seem lots cleaner.
I think I probably did 2 soapy soak-spin-rinse-spin routines with it,
all in hot. I laid it on my screens to dry, and was surprised to find
that it was extremely tacky once dry. I washed it again in really hot
water with LOTS of Dawn, but it made no difference at all. I even put
some of it into a dyepot on the stove to get hotter water, but the durn
stuff was still too tacky to spin.
Anybody have a clue what happened and what I can do to retrieve this
fleece? The grease was not the nasty congealed stuff I have formerly
seen on elderly fleeces before I washed it, and it was only a year old.
TIA
Lynn C
Seattle
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