what the stain is, dipshit. Not the fabric. Reading is good

9/15/2007 9:36:15 PM

2.02

[Edited on September 15, 2007 at 9:36 PM. Reason : .]

9/15/2007 9:36:17 PM

maybe i should ask myself why the spandex in my black socks broke

9/15/2007 9:53:36 PM

what's the most effective way to get rid of armpit stains

9/15/2007 10:15:54 PM

^ enzymes and elbow grease. or bleach.

9/15/2007 10:25:06 PM

what are you going to do with your major? Seems like you should open up your own cleaners

9/16/2007 2:49:30 AM

^^correct

^I don't know. I could do a whole shitton. Whatever I do, though, I will be working directly with fabrics/fibers. That's a non-negotiable.

9/16/2007 10:16:43 PM

how do you get bleach stains out of things

i have a perfectly good red jacket that has an orang bleach stain on it, damn good jacket

i want it recovered

9/16/2007 10:18:22 PM

for serious this time....


day old blood (fish) in cotton (rag)

9/16/2007 10:18:28 PM

^^you're fucked, my dear

^the issue of blood has been addressed already

(sorry, I'm on the phone right now and keeping it short)

9/16/2007 10:24:21 PM

9/16/2007 10:25:10 PM

damn not even some special dye??

9/16/2007 10:25:20 PM

FIBERS FTW

fabrics ft~

9/16/2007 10:25:26 PM

^^you'll have a REALLY hard time matching a packaged dye to the color of your garment.

9/16/2007 10:26:24 PM

thats why you exist

9/16/2007 10:28:12 PM

9/16/2007 10:28:22 PM

how do you get deodorant stains out of shirts?

i have like 3 that have white stains from using gel deodorant

9/16/2007 10:28:50 PM

My first instinct would be dish detergent + warm water + stiff brush, and scrub. The aim is to reduce any sort of cohesion between the deodorant particles (dish soap), and dislodge as many as possible from the fabric (stiff brush)

9/16/2007 10:30:26 PM

i performed a laundry miracle the other day


i slipped and fell (lol) on the wet grass and got a nasty grass stain
well within 4 minutes, i had put it in the laundry and it the stain was on the kneecap of my pants

i positioned the pants so the stain was in the bottom of a small indenture, like a bowl. I used liquid detergent and just filled up the 'bowl' and turned on the washer.

there is no trace of any grass stain anymore!

9/16/2007 10:32:49 PM

hey textiles diva, any advice on blood stains and worsted wool--you know, since i can't wash it and all

9/17/2007 11:44:11 AM

if you hand wash it, you should be good. how old is the blood/did you rinse it at all when it happened?

9/17/2007 11:45:39 AM

yesterday old--i didn't do anything at the time cause i didn't notice it

9/17/2007 11:46:37 AM

how big is the spot?

9/17/2007 11:47:18 AM

smaller than a dime

9/17/2007 11:47:41 AM

I just had one of those Pilot pens blow up at my desk. It's red, and got red all over my dress shirt (white), my tie (blue) and my pants.

Will this come out at the dry cleaners, or is this shirt/tie/pant done for?

9/17/2007 11:49:16 AM

i would blot w/ alcohol, then pre-treat w/ detergent--maybe peroxide on the white shirt...

[Edited on September 17, 2007 at 11:53 AM. Reason : hit up the first aid kit]

9/17/2007 11:52:51 AM

^^^For now, dissolve some cascade/other powdered dish soap into some lukewarm water, and soak that spot in it, stirring every once in a while. After a couple hours, hand wash the spot, gingerly (avoid rubbing the fibers against each other excessively: that leads to felting, which is why most folks don't machine wash wool sweaters). Repeat if needed. Lie flat to dry.

^^ no.

Joe, douse that shit in the cheapest hairspray you can find. AquaNet is a good start. Rinse it with cold water, and soak it again. For your shirt. What's the fiber content on your tie? I've only ever done this on cotton/poly blends, or cotton. I have no idea whether it'll work on silk, or if it'll destroy the silk.

[Edited on September 17, 2007 at 11:54 AM. Reason : fdjk]

9/17/2007 11:54:18 AM

Here's a hint, probably mostly for the guys

...wash your towels with bleach (unless, of course, they're dark/red/otherwise unbleachable). Not only does it make them smell better

...if you forget to move them to the dryer for a couple days, having been washed with bleach means they don't have to be re-washed due to funk.

This also applies to your apparel whites, too.

10/7/2007 2:51:22 PM

color-safe bleach, dur

10/7/2007 2:54:14 PM

nah, gotta use the chlorine.


If it's non-chlorine bleach, it's a waste of your money.

10/7/2007 2:55:46 PM

why so?

10/7/2007 2:56:38 PM

There are other things that work as well at getting stains out/taking care of bacteria (baking soda, lemon juice, borax - they all have their functions)

I've always thought it simply does nothing. I'll be honest: I have never, ever used non-chlorine bleach. It wasn't present in my parent's household, either.

In this case, bacteria is the issue at hand. I typically move whites and linens over with a quickness, but in this instance, a certain someone forgot to tell me he'd washed any.

I also don't buy non-bleachable linens, unless I don't care about color.

I do have some dark-colored sheets that I've broken in by washing them, and them alone, in a large wash, with increasing amounts of bleach each wash - it hasn't leached out the amount of dye that an initial wash in a full-strength bleach bath would have.

10/7/2007 3:01:37 PM

well, i only buy white sheets (in my mind, that's the proper color for sheets), but it was my impression that most color-safe bleaches use perborate (peroxide)

10/7/2007 3:05:00 PM

I'd have to check (gotta buy more bleach soon anyways...I use a lot of it, between lots of whites, making my own cleaning solutions, and cleaning up pet messes).

I know it's an erroneous association, but to me, chlorine smell = cleaner than no chlorine smell. Who doesn't?

Also, I'm curious now as to whether
1) you're right
2) that inhibits bacteria/funk growth in forgotten washes

Quote :

"well, i only buy white sheets (in my mind, that's the proper color for sheets)"

I was actually thinking of towels, too. Back in middle school, my sister gave me a KICKASS towel (dorm towel: has a pocket for a key, and a hook sewn on) that's green. Was. Now it's orange.

Sheets get coordinated with wall color

10/7/2007 3:07:27 PM

what can get an old wine stain out of a this dress?

65% acetate
30% nylon
4% spandex

10/7/2007 3:08:42 PM

Bring it to me

color?

10/7/2007 3:09:10 PM

what are your thoughts on /message_topic.aspx?topic=497599?

or for that matter, softening most sorts of clothes

10/11/2007 9:00:46 AM

I've replied to that thread.

How to soften depends very much on the fiber content and construction. You'd go about softening a linen shirt very differently than you would jeans; you'd soften jeans differently than khakis.

There's also a point past which you don't want to actively soften: with most* (linen being the exception**) clothes, softer = fiber loss = increasing weakness

*I say most only because I'm not ENTIRELY sure there's not something out there for which this doesn't apple
**flax = linen = brittle. Softening that up is simply creating breaks in the fiber structure, and the effect of that on strength is negligible, if not non-existent.

10/11/2007 9:05:21 AM

use white vinegar as a softening agent as opposed to an actual fabric softener...vinegar removes the extra soap that makes clothing stiff (acid/base reaction of some kind, i think)

also, your clothes don't smell like vinegar when you're done...doesn't take much, either...1/4 cup or less per load in your softener dispenser

10/11/2007 9:44:44 AM

I washed one of my cotton work shirts with a sticker on it, and now there's this icky sticker residue on the shirt. How can I get it off?

10/11/2007 9:58:58 AM

alcohol or acetone would be my guess

10/11/2007 11:27:55 AM

ambrosia1231 is like some sort of fabric prodigy.





or she watches way too much TLC.

10/11/2007 11:41:41 AM

both

10/11/2007 11:44:49 AM

^^^^, ^^^ is a good guess. Also try the cheapest hairspray you can get

^^what's on TLC dealing with fabric?

Anyways, it's not like this stuff is my major or anything

10/11/2007 12:32:25 PM

The lint on my bedsheets and duvet cover is driving me nuts! Every time I pull them out of the dryer they are just covered in crap, its like I didn't wash them. What can I do?

10/22/2007 8:01:22 PM

Fiber content?

Is your lint trap clean? Check your ductwork, too, perhaps.

But mostly - fiber content?

10/22/2007 10:09:31 PM

perhaps there is some pilling going on there

10/22/2007 10:11:57 PM

I guess, there is a lot but I'm gonna check the ductwork. This only happens to my bed shits and shit, not my regular clothes.

10/22/2007 10:49:48 PM

nice logic there

10/22/2007 10:57:06 PM

ok ambrosia

I have some royal blue tights for my halloween costume...they need to be light blue and i dont wanna go buy any new ones, plus i had trouble just finding any blue ones at that.

is it possible to put a litttttttle bit of bleach in the washer and wash them to lighten them? or how would i go about doin that, they need to be a lighter shade blue...are they even safe to wash?

10/26/2007 9:34:00 PM