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Old 11-27-2007, 02:33 PM
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Yes, I always tell my customers to baste their pleats before any washing.

It is far better to hand wash a good Wool Kilt.
Then baste and hand-wash, I shall...after Christmas, tho.
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Old 11-27-2007, 02:40 PM
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You might even be able to support the window screne with the edges of your tub and leave it there until it has stopped dripping water or even until the kilt is dry
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Hmmm...hand wash with woolite and lay out flat on screening? I have an old window screen. Hmmm.
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Old 11-27-2007, 06:34 PM
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Hand washing works great, but I bought a fold out clothes drying rack to dry my kilts I've found that the kilts are difficult to lay flat because of the tapering at the hips, so I hang the tapered part over the edge of the rack and the pleats are very easy to flatten out and don't require much pressing when it dries.
Where did you find a fold-out drying rack? I've done some searches, but no luck yet.
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Old 11-27-2007, 07:19 PM
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I found mine at a yard sale, but I think that Walmart has racks that set in a tub for drying wool sweaters. You might try those type of stores in the travel departments.
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I found mine at a yard sale, but I think that Walmart has racks that set in a tub for drying wool sweaters. You might try those type of stores in the travel departments.
You might be talking about something like these.

But I am looking for a flat one.
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Old 11-27-2007, 08:45 PM
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The one I have is made of plastic coated metal bars and has legs and fold out wings, so it's like a table almost. I've been looking for one like it on the web, but haven't found anything yet. It looks like there are sweater drying racks on the web that could be put side by side to make enough space to spread out a kilt though. If I see anything like what I have, I will post it.
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Old 11-27-2007, 08:56 PM
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These extravagant drying racks sound like a Lillian Vernon catalog item...

http://www.lillianvernon.com/catalog...Id=4&catId=157


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Old 11-29-2007, 01:10 AM
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That sounds like something from Homestar Runner's Teen Girl Squad.

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I was working on winding some yarn into yarn balls and I heard a commercial for a Hamilton Beach sweater dryer. Having just read this thread my ears perked up. A multi-layer flat screen dryer.




http://www.hamiltonbeach.com/product...ion.php?page=1

you might want a look at this.
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