Cat hair and Pendleton blankets
Doug
thoroughly imbued with cat hair. I've tried the vacuum cleaner, lint
roller, duct tape around a large soup can and rubber kitchen glove.
So far the vacuum is the least effective, the kitchen does a good top
layer removal although the shoulder won't last anywhere's near long
enough to make a big dent. The lint roller would have me buying stock in
the company before having enough to do the job and then we're back to
the shoulder and energy holding out. Duct tape is a bit better. A large
can of soup covered will clean less than a square foot before it's
worthless. Back to buying stock. So the bottom line, at this point in
time is, whether anyone knows of any methods other than where I'm at
now? Or am I going to have to steel myself for a long and adruous task?
Or should I just fold them for display and clean hair from only the side
that would show? Naw. I'd feel bad then. They're worth better than that.
The other three we've picked up over the years are fine, thankfully.
Any Pendleton collectors out there? Thanks Much.
Doug in Fremont
Ann
> I inherited a couple really nice Pendleton blankets. <...>
The easiest solution would be to take them to a cleaner and let them
worry about how to do it. I'd think you'd want to have them cleaned
anyway because otherwise, they'll be moth magnets.
I have an old Stanley clothes brush that works reasonably well at
removing pet hair. Thanks to Google:
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Put them in the dryer and tumble dry them on low heat for a while. The cat
hair should get sucked into the lint trap.
Doug
I'm trying to avoid $$. Got more time than $$. I'd also have to be very
careful to find a cleaner who knew about Pendleton wool and wouldn't
screw it up. I've had "cleaners" do me wrong so am a bit gun shy there.
Got lots of cedar pieces all over the place that cycle thru various
closets, chests etc, so have never really had a noticeable moth problem.
A quick "roughing up" and they're good to go back on the hanger for
awhile. We have 4 or 5 blankets we'd like to hang as a wall hanging
display of some sort of arrangement. (great grammar there, sorry). My
wife just picked up some lint rollers and is watching for a brush she
heard about. Will probably expend some elbow grease this weekend.
We saw Dale Chihuly's Pendleton collection a couple years ago. Now there
are some blankets!!! We've been Chihuly fans forever and only 4 or 5
years ago heard that he collected Pendletons also. WOW!
Doug in Fremont
AL
> Ann wrote:
>> On Wed, 03 Mar 2010 15:08:32 -0800, Doug wrote:
>>> I inherited a couple really nice Pendleton blankets. <...>
>> The easiest solution would be to take them to a cleaner and let them
>> worry about how to do it. [...]
> Hi Ann
> I'm trying to avoid $$. Got more time than $$.
then get a pair of tweezers, a magnifying glass and a few bottles of wine...
Doug
Ouch! LOL Got more time than patience sometimes. Like the wine
bottles idea though
AL
Just a suggestion since I don't have a clue what a Pendleton blanket is.
I am curious whether the hair is pretty much one one side or evenly
distributed on both sides and whether it would be possible to use
compressed air blown through the material to dislodge the hair on the
opposite side - kinda like blowing the dirt out of an air filter? Like I
said, no clue what this material is like.
Doug
Pendleton, Oregon is the home of the 100 year old Pendleton Woolen
Mills/Company, whatever they call themselves no days. Their wool
blankets are very colorful, heavy, good quality, pricey, collectible etc
etc etc. Lots of Indian motif and colorings. They do lots of other
clothes etc but the blankets are probably what they're best known for.
Hmmmm, will give the compressed air a try. Might get some more of it out.
FarmI
>thoroughly imbued with cat hair. I've tried the vacuum cleaner, lint
>roller, duct tape around a large soup can and rubber kitchen glove.
> So far the vacuum is the least effective, the kitchen does a good top
> layer removal although the shoulder won't last anywhere's near long enough
> to make a big dent. The lint roller would have me buying stock in the
> company before having enough to do the job and then we're back to the
> shoulder and energy holding out. Duct tape is a bit better. A large can of
> soup covered will clean less than a square foot before it's worthless.
> Back to buying stock. So the bottom line, at this point in time is,
> whether anyone knows of any methods other than where I'm at now? Or am I
> going to have to steel myself for a long and adruous task? Or should I
> just fold them for display and clean hair from only the side that would
> show? Naw. I'd feel bad then. They're worth better than that.
Try a hardware store and buy a couple of rubber brooms. You can get them as
a long handled floor model for carpets or as a hand held one for upholstery.
As you know the rubber kitchen glove works but they make you hand hot very
quickly.
A frend of mine who is an absolute domestic pig, and also unwell, had a cat
that left the most amazing amount of fur and dirt all over several seats in
her house. I cleaned them for her using a Dyson vacuum cleaner as the
initial cleaner then used my rubber brooms. This combination worked very
well.
I'd lay them out flat on the carpet on top of a sheet and go over then with
the floor model broom.
And if they are pure wool blankets, I'd also wash them in the bath with
Borax added to gentle washing powder if they needed cleaning rather than
take them to a dry cleaner.
Doug
rubber glove surprised me so the rubber broom...............hmmmm May
have to put one of them on the shopping list. They look pretty inexpensive.
FarmI
I don't recall whether mine cost a lot of not, and given that I'm getting to
be more of a cheapskate the older I get, I don't think they would have cost
very much at all. The wonderful thing about them is that once you've got
them, you'll wonder how you lived without them. I vacuum the carpet and
then go over the carpet using the rubber broom and it is simply astounding
the amount of stuff it will bring up off the carpet even after you think it
is super clean.
I got onto them on the recommendation of a neighbour. She too is a domestic
pig and has a lot of cats and dogs always in the house (either her own or
other people's that she is baby sitting). She showed me how well they
worked on her always filthy carpet and I was very impressed with how it
lifted the animal hair off her floors.