Wool blanket cleaning question

[mewing6003]

Seems my son put our wool trade blankets in the dryer with one of those dryer sheet thingys. :curse: to make a long story short, they now have a distinct odor that smells kind of like old motor oil.

Anyone know how to get this smell out? We already left them out in the rain 3 separate times now and air dried them, didnt work. The Frebreeze stuff didnt work either. Thanks in advance for the help.

 

[musketman]

Perhaps a stronger (more pleasing) odor in what you need...

Seal the blanket in a bag with some cedar chips for a few days...

-or-

Air it out, over time the smell will fade...

Extream answer: MUD
Get your blanket muddy and wash it out before it drys, mud and clays absorbs many odors, careful not to stain the blanket...

Seems my son put our wool trade blankets in the dryer with one of those dryer sheet thingys.

Did the blanket shrink?

 

[Holley]

So does corn starch and less visible and baking soda.

 

[Tahquamenon]

Yep Cedar chips should work nicely. If the dryer sheet scent is really bad, soak some cedar chips in water for a few hours, then drain the water through a cloth filter and fill a spray bottle and spray/mist the rugs with "Cedarized" water.

I do this to remove the mothball smell on stored wool blankets and clothes.

Works excellent!

:m2c:

 

Cedar Chips!!! NO way. You will smell like you slept in a gerble cage! :crackup: :crackup: :crackup:

Woody

 

This might sound like I'm fooling around, but this is really what I do when my gear starts smelling pretty (like when my wife lovingly washes it with Downy). It just feels...weird...

Take it out to camp. Light a nice fire, wrap the blanket around your shoulders, have a pipe and a beer while sitting close to the fire. Place a non-funny smelling blanket on the ground, sleep under the funny smelling one next to the fire.

Every woolie I own smells like woodsmoke...when they start to fade as I use them around the house or the kids or wife curl up under them and watch TV, I just take them back out.

Another alternative is to light the bar-b-que (use some nice hickory chips) and hang the blanket downwind on a clothesline. Not many people have those any more, I know, but you can rig something up. You blankie will now smell of hickory smoke. HOWEVER, don't do this in bear country, because your blankie might also smell like steak.

 

[mewing6003]

No the blankets didnt shrink, thank goodness.

Stumblin, just one beer?

I will try the cedar chip thingy. I am having a flash back of a bear hunt in Alaska years ago. We got a ride to the Kenai peninsula on a cod fishing boat a friend owned and had to sleep on the floor in the cabin overnight for the trip. I can still remember the smell of deisel fuel mixed with 20,000 pounds of cod in the hold. Now thats something that you wont soon forget! :cry:

 

[loophole]

Reb, you just think you have problems. Years ago I took my old golden retriever, Gen. Beauregard, on a one week trek into Lost Cove--an abandoned settlement in a valley along the Nollichucky River. We streched out in our bedrolls the first night when old Beau got on a skunk and headed for protection to the closest human--a fastidious sort of fellow we called the Rabbi, not overly fond of dogs to begin with. Rabbi woke us all up with horrible screaming as the dog rolled on his brand new Hudson Bay 6 point, trying to get the skunk scent rubbed off. We picketed old Beau downwind from the camp and quit smelling him after about five days, but Rabbi smelled of skunk for the duration of the trip. Despite washing in woolite and dry cleaning and several other efforts Rabbi never completely got the skunk smell out of the 6 point, and even today when the air is a bit damp we're treated to the pungent aroma of polecat.

 

[mewing6003]

Thanks Loop, that just makes me feel so much better! :shake:

Anyone have a lead on some good prices for 2 wool trade blankets?

Anyone want to buy 2 slightly used trade blankets? :crackup:

 

[TANSTAAFL]

I clean mine at least once a year by draping it over a large hill of angry ants. :crackup: :crackup: :crackup:

 

[Flint50]

I agree with woodsmoke-hides (replaces) the scent of almost anything.

 

[Zonie]

Boy! Some People!!
Here some chemist works late hours and week ends just to bring you

MOUNTAIN MEADOWS
Makes your cloths smell
MOUNTAIN FRESH!!

and all you guys can do is to try to cover up the
"Wonderful Aroma: Brings you the crisp, clean scent of the Pristine Wilderness." . :: :: ::

If the marketing department hears about this, that poor guy might loose his job. Then how can the Cloths Dryer scent pad companys bring us

FOREST PRIVY
Bring the Fragrence of Humanity
Into YOUR home!
:: :: :: :crackup: :crackup: :crackup:

 

[redhairedwench]

Well, now here's an idea for someone to suggest to the marketing gurus! Something that resembles canvas, blackpowder smoke, campfire, and such. Would be a best seller among us folks here! Now, as for the odor problem, all I can say is drag it out to a few events, and sit huddled around the fire , the smokier the better, and you won't notice any other smell. The cedar chips are a good idea as well. Good luck and don't despair! After a few years use, you'll never notice any other odor other than your own!!! :results: