How to clean a felt hat at home

There are such items of clothing that can not be washed in the usual way. But they also tend to get dirty. What to do? For example, how to clean a felt hat?

Ordinary dust

On most felt hats a whitish bloom from long socks appears. This street dust settles between the fibers. To clean this headdress can be very simple. You will need:

• pan
• water
• medium hard brush or coarse cloth
• Two arms

Pour water into the pot, set on fire. How to boil - we take a hat in one hand. Hold it over the steam, use the second hand to clean the dust with a brush in the direction of the pile. At the end of the procedure with a stiff brush, straighten and raise the nap. Leave to dry.

Water stains

Often after a walk in the rain and drying on the felt marks remain. Spots call them hard.However, the headdress appears unpresentable look. It is very easy to fix. Do not even need special tools.

Take:

• stiff brush
• clean cool water

The procedure is simple. We lightly wet the brush with water, then with a careful movement we lift the pile on the felt. Psevdopyatna disappear right before your eyes.

Just do not overdo it. Do not wet the hat through, otherwise it is deformed. After all the actions will only dry headgear in a warm dry room.

If you have a steamer or an iron that has this function, then try raising the pile with hot steam. After processing, comb the hat with a brush of medium hardness and dry. Desirable on the block or a suitable form.

Council Do not put a felt hat on the radiator or heater for drying. Shiny tracks may appear.

Lime and chalk stains

Very insidious marks are obtained if you accidentally touch the whitewashed wall. Regular brushing will cause whitish stains. And with further contact with the brush and water, they crawl away even more. What to do? Take table 9% vinegar and clean water, mix in a ratio of 1 to 1.And already received liquid to process stains from whitewashing. In this movement must be strictly from the edges to the center. Instead of vinegar, you can take lemon juice.

After the lime has disappeared, wipe the cleaned area with a soft cloth with clean water.

Fat spots

It may not necessarily be a stain on the products. In places where the hat touches the skin, similar marks may also occur. Some sources recommend rubbing the flaw with a dry bread crust or sprinkling with table salt. In our opinion, this is a very dubious method. After all, there are more effective and high-quality ways:

1. Refined gasoline. Coarse cloth (cloth) is moistened in the liquid. Then, without pressing, wipe the stain until it disappears completely.
2. Ammonia. It is diluted with ordinary water in a ratio of 1 to 1. The resulting mixture is removed stain. No additional wiping with clean water is required.
3. Denatured alcohol and ammonia. Mix in equal proportions, then process a problem site. According to reviews, this method copes even with the oldest greasy spots and greasy places.

There are recommendations to use stain remover.The method is very good, but there is one nuance. The tool should be designed for colored fabrics. Otherwise, there is a high risk to get a bright spot instead of a greasy stain.

Bright felt caps are cleaned of fat in a slightly different way. You need potato starch and refined gasoline. Raw materials are mixed to a thick slurry, then rubbed into the mark with a brush. After drying, the mixture is not washed off, but shaken by tapping from the inside of the headdress. It remains only to comb the pile.

Council Instead of starch and gasoline, you can use dry bran or semolina. They are rubbed into a fat stain until it disappears. After the remnants of detergent shake off.

Useful recommendations

If the felt hat in some places burned out from long wearing, then you can restore the color very simply. It is necessary to buy a spray paint for suede or nubuck suitable shade. Further act on the instructions. Try it, the result will pleasantly surprise you.

There are recommendations to clean felt hats of brown shades with a decoction of tobacco leaves. Why such difficulties? Where to get these same leaves? How to get rid of tobacco stink?

Do not bother with nonsense, and use more traditional methods.

The most common contaminations are on the felt hats on the inside. These are the places poignant with sweat. You can clean them using this mixture:

• table 9% vinegar, 10 parts
• ammonia, 10 parts
• table salt, 3 parts

All components are thoroughly stirred until the grains are completely dissolved. Then take a light cloth, moistened in a liquid and scrub the pollution. It is necessary to clean as long as the fabric does not stop getting dirty. Then, as usual, combing and drying.

There are tips to use for cleaning the felt hat fine sandpaper. Recipe of very dubious quality. The fact is that only the top layer of the pile is cleaned. The very same stain will remain thicker than felt. And where is the guarantee that soon it will not appear again?

What to do if all efforts to clean the felt hat were in vain? Insidious spot is seen in the most conspicuous place and no tool takes it! There will have to include fantasy. After all, the mark can always be closed with some kind of decorative element. On a men's headdress - an elegant ribbon, a strict buckle.On the female - a flower, jewelry. On the kids - a fun patch or even a small soft toy.

In this case, it is not necessary to sew the element tightly. You can use pieces of velcro and change the image every day. But this hat will be in a single copy, and only you.

How to clean the felt hat at home? Especially if you do not trust dry cleaners. It turns out it's not so difficult. Some knowledge, a little zeal, caution - and woo-ala! Your hat is as good as new.

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