a question about cleaning kilts

**Scrapscot** · 5th July 08, 04:21 PM

I wouldn't advise washing a wool kilt in the machine but I don't know anything about the SWKs. We dry clean our skirts at a reputable dry cleaner; also did that for Anthony's kilt.

**Cathal_Flameridge** · 5th July 08, 04:27 PM

Originally Posted by Scrapscot

I wouldn't advise washing a wool kilt in the machine but I don't know anything about the SWKs. We dry clean our skirts at a reputable dry cleaner; also did that for Anthony's kilt.

yeah I wasn't planning on machine washing a wool kilt. I can't even afford a wool kilt at the current time. I already have machine washed my still water kilt once on the gentle cycle, and it appears to have come out alright. However if others who have Stillwater Kilts on this forum advise not to machine wash them, then I probably won't. I am just not really sure what to do. The Stillwater Kilt company seems to feel that it is okay to machine wash one of their kilts so long as it is on the Delicate / gentle cycle. I think they would probably know their kilts the best. So at the moment I will go with their advice, at least until I hear from someone else regarding their own experience with the kilt.

**Pleater** · 5th July 08, 04:50 PM

I can't give you specifics about Stillwater kilts, but I have found that the best way to maintain newness is to hand wash fairly gently.

If you are going to be renewing your kilts after a few years then it would not be a problem, but even on the delicates cycle all that fabric folded into pleats will be worked over quite well and with acrylic it is almost inevetable that some pilling will appear before long.

I have a fair spectrum of kilts now, and noticed that machine washing, even with the fabrics which are considered machine washables did result in considerably greater wear than I would have expected.

I have one kilt which I hand washed due to its colour running, and that remained newer looking than the ones I made around that time but machine washed. Since deciding to hand wash all my kilts I think they have remained in better condition overall.