Acrylic and pilling?

[Nick]

I'm about ready to buy my first SWK (there's a Hunting McLeod that's my size). I've heard a lot about acryllic pilling after repeated washings. If I hang dry the kilt, will that keep it from pilling, since it wasn't in the dryer, or slow the process down, or is it the washer and not the dryer that does it in the first place?

[auld argonian]

First I think that you'll find that you don't have to wash it quite so frequently as, say, a pair of jeans. I've not had a lot of trouble with pilling on mine...I do throw them in the washing machine, wash gentle and spin the water out...I go back and spin it a couple of extra times just to get as much water out as possible. I have put them in the dryer and you do find a bit more of a fuzzy surface after that...I actually used a small Wahl trimmer that's made for trimming hair to get the fuzz off...it was here and I haven't had a chance to pick up one of those sweater shavers. (There is a GIANT SWEATER SHAVER available at my local CVS store...I don't know if that means that the shaver its self is GIANT or that it is made to be used on GIANT sweaters.

I have gone over to just laying a couple of bath towels down on a table and laying the wet SWK standard on the towels and lining everything up neatly and just letting it dry. This seems to accomplish three things:

1. I seems to dry with no "fuzz"...I think that the dryer actually exacerbates the fuzz factor.

2.The pleats seem to stay sharper without my having to fool around with the iron...something I've found to be a difficult bit of business to do well with the SWK standards.

3. It give my pain in the arse cat, Chili Palmer, someplace to lay and drive me nuts shooing him off of my kilt.

I recently got one of the SWK Hunting McLeods and I think you will enjoy it.

Best

AA

[Riverkilt]

Would also suggest wearing your sporran with a leather sporran strap rather than the metal chains that come with most of them.

Ron

[Southern Breeze]

I got my first Stillwater Standerd back in Oct. The ones I wear to work are washed twice a week, pilling has not a problem with them.

[Iñaki]

My personal experience is about piling. I can shave it off, but after some more wear (especially the area behind the sporran) fuzz comes back. Ive had for a year now and it does look rather fuzzy. And another thing about it is the static it creates after wearing for a few minutes.

[646guy]

My personal experience is about piling. I can shave it off, but after some more wear (especially the area behind the sporran) fuzz comes back. Ive had for a year now and it does look rather fuzzy. And another thing about it is the static it creates after wearing for a few minutes.

this gives static cling a WHOLE new meaning...

[Alan H]

I've had my first Stillwater for about a year now...13 months and I"ve washed it three times. I wear it about once a week, maybe once every two weeks. I will admit, the water I washed it in (in the bathtub) was pretty awful, last time when I took it out.

Here's what I did:

Warm water, a little more liquid detergent than usual in the tub, about 3 inches deep.....slosh, slosh, slosh for about ten minutes.

YUCK.... drained water out.

Repeat. Not so yuck this time.

Now, same amount of warm/hot water, no soap for a rinse.

Another rise, cool water.

In the WASHING machine for a spin-dry.

hangg from hanger overnight, nicely arrangining pleats, and air-dry.

Iron