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I tried but failed…still sheds…
XOX, Gap.
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Pareil! y’en a partout, c’est terrible! et ça ne marche pas le truc du congélateur… il parait qu’il faut mettre de la laque pour cheveux par contre je me demande si ça n’abîme pas la laine du coup… rhalala c’est pulls en angora ;)

Cécile

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While we’re at it, can we talk about how to treat sweaters that pill the second or third time you wear them? Does anyone have the best means of removing them completely? Would LOVE to know!

Wool always sheds, it’s natural, no matter the quality or the way it’s prepared. It will stop shredding after a while though :) I think you can buy razors for sweaters, but I never tried.

This (http://www.sweaterstone.com/) is magic for removing piling.

I have tried the freezer thing and it worked for my sweater. Granted, it didn’t completely stop the shedding but it really made it so much better!

I stopped buying angora because of that problem. When I was wearing an angora sweater, I put a leather jacket on it, or a nylon jacket ; it doesn’t get the wool on it.

I avoid angora for this reason although I’m so often tempted to buy beautiful angora sweaters.

Yes to the bobbling! There seems to be no correlation between cost and how well/badly wool or cashmere sweaters wear. I’ve got a Cos cashmere sweater which still looks like new two years after buying and other more expensive ones which look awful after a few wears – it drives me mad!

I’ve found the key to clothes that shed and pill it to return them immediately to the store. Life is too short to have dysfunctional clothes!

I have animals and every kind of wool you can think of….SO, invest in some dish washing yellow rubber gloves. They wipe off all the lint from your clothes, furniture, Etc. Humans, house and animals = happy. Then run the gloves under warm water….lint be gone. I would put some drain sifter so you don’t clog your sink ( i.e. little metal disk with holes to cover drain hole). Re-use/re-cycle….good for the enviroment and saves you lots o cash. If it’s ÜBER linty…then invest in extra gloves. Put the gloves in your car, bag…anywhere. Life hackers…

J’ai arrêté l’angora, parce que j’avais des poils pleins les yeux … en plus du reste
Pour les poils qui se font la malle et font des bouloches, oui il faut mettre ton pull au freezer, mais pas juste une fois, le freezer EST le placard du pull. Et la laque marche, elle n’abîme pas, mais ça ne fonctionne pas toute la journée (comme pour les cheveux d’ailleurs). La laque sert juste à éviter l’électricité statique, qui stoppe partiellement le boulochage; c’est pour ça que la laque marche aussi pour éviter que les soies ne collent à la peau

Yes! As a knitwear designer, my whole life is covered in wool and little bits and pieces of everything that sheds. Oh wow, it gets everywhere!

You can try to put it in the dryer on no heat, but if it’s 100% wool or any animal fibre, that’s a little risky.

The truth is, everything sheds – that’s just the nature of the beast, quite literally – you are wearing animal hair! The good news is, the more you wear it, the less it sheds. There is, for every animal fibre, a “final shedding point” when the shedding becomes negligible.

Until then, I use the stick lint removers before I put the sweater on (not the paper ones) – you can buy them at walgreens or anywhere. They’re usually red and they’re designed to remove lint AND pills. Then I use the paper ones before I leave the house.

AND – Muji sells a portable, reusable, paperless lint remover. I’m thinking of buying those in bulk and sending them out with every order I fulfill :)

Hope this helps!

I tried the freezer trick and it failed, which got me thinking what I could do, so I brought it to the dry cleaners and explained what I wanted, they have it back to me and it never shed again. Don’t know what they did but it was worth the €5 I paid for sure.

http://www.daintyandchic.com

I know that for cashmere, shedding is proportional to the length of the hairs, so there are some expensive brands that use yarn made with shorter hairs that shed, and then there’s the good guys (sometimes even cheap, like Monoprix) that use longer hairs and their cashmere stays put. I’m guessing the same goes for for angora or any other type of wool.
Hope this helps :)

I believe the reason that sweaters from “the old days” didn’t pill so much was due to how the animal had it’s fibres removed. When shearing a sheep often there is still more fibre closer to the skin after the fibre is first cut off. As fibres like these are sold by weight, often shearers will go back and do a second cut to get as much fibre as possible. This was possibly more difficult to do back when hand shears were used instead of electrical clippers which are used today. Only trouble is that these pesky second cuts (which are often very short) get spun into the yarn and then pull out of the yarn more easily than the longer length fibres. I believe in higher quality (often synonymous with “older”) yarns, the fleece is sorted more carefully and only the long length fibres are used for spinning into yarn, which makes the yarn hold together better and reduces pilling. Unfortunately there’s no way of knowing how well the fleece was sorted before spinning and so no way of knowing if you will get pilling on your garment. Boo.