Pug hair magnets.

[tundramanq]

Wearing my nylon microfiber El Commando kilt that doesn't get much run time. Sat on my couch and soon discovered a whole lot of hard to remove pug hair all over the pleats.
I use a fuzzy acrylic blanket to cover my couch because it holds the dog hair and really reduces the transfer to my kilts.
No transfer to cotton or cotton blends and very little to Rocky's treated PVs. Works great !
But the dog hair likes the all nylon microfiber better than the acrylic blanket.

The washing machine is only marginal at removing pug hair. A long air tumble dry gets more out but not all out.

I think the nylons and acrylics carry a hefty static charge, even wet.

Liquid fabric softeners ( Downy ) dampens the charge, but is a total no-no for any kilt.

[GrainReaper]

I solved that problem by getting a different brand of dog, now my Sheltie hair gets stuck to all my kilts equally well.... and to anything else you can think of... And collects into "Sheltie bunnies" that blow about the house despite regular brushings and brooming the place daily...

How can an 18 lb dog shed 22lbs of hair every day?

I think a dog hair has a lifespan of 5 minutes, grows in in 3 short minutes, stays firmly affixed for one minute, then detaches from said canine and has fallen free by minute 5.

[tundramanq]

ditto, If the breed has a downy coat under the top coat, the downy coat sheds 24/365.
Since the dog and the kilts are staying, I usually wear colors that blend with or at least compliment the fur color.
At least the fur doesn't plug up the vacuum cleaner bag reducing suction - just fills it. I suck the couch every time a do the floors too. Bathing and wooling my Avatar just creates a fur storm in the house for the next 48 hours.

[The Q]

I solved that problem by getting a different brand of dog, now my Sheltie hair gets stuck to all my kilts equally well.... and to anything else you can think of... And collects into "Sheltie bunnies" that blow about the house despite regular brushings and brooming the place daily...

How can an 18 lb dog shed 22lbs of hair every day?

I think a dog hair has a lifespan of 5 minutes, grows in in 3 short minutes, stays firmly affixed for one minute, then detaches from said canine and has fallen free by minute 5.

Try having five, yes 5 rough collies and a border collie, all at the same time see avatar!!!!

[GrainReaper]

I had three shelties of our own and two or three fosters at a time when we were living in AZ, since moving to Illinois we no longer foster Sheltie rescues, sadly last year we put our boy Mikko to sleep, our remaining two will likely be down to one by winter. When our pups are gone I'm sticking to fishtanks for a while.

[Father Bill]

Take a roll of cheap tape - masking tape perhaps - and wind it backwards (sticky side out) around your hand. Then just pat the kilt with the taped hand and see if that works.

Good luck with it! I have black lab hair in my house which is fine enough on the kilts, but tough on a white tile floor.

[tundramanq]

Bill, I have done the making tape ting. I found the sticky lint rollers at one of the dollar stores. I get-em by the hand full, cheap. But I swear a certain percentage of my pugs hairs have barbs at the end. They seem half woven in and require one by one hand picking - especially in the microfiber.
I think the flexing of the fabric in walking and sitting is the elf that has the crochet hooks.

With other kilt fibers wiping with just a damp hand or a washcloth on the kilt table works like a charm.

[Steve Ashton]

It's actually due to the nature of micro-fiber fabrics. Once hair of almost any kind comes in contact with micro-fiber fabrics they are a royal pain to get back out. It is one of the reasons micro-fiber clothing went out of favor.

You may need to abandon the micro-fiber kilt.

[Todd Bradshaw]

The down garment manufacturers blast them with ionized air after filling to get the excess fluff off the nylon surface. I don't know anything about ionized air, or where to get it, but I have a hunch that it might require getting dangerously close to a lightning bolt.

[tundramanq]

Steve, got me thinking. To make the fabric look less shiny, more natural looking and feel better, all the synthetic threads are mechanically or chemically abraded making them fuzzy like natural wool or cotton. The micro- just refers to a smaller thread fiber diameter. The easily ignited fuzziness is why all synthetics need fire retardant treatments for clothing use.

When you drive a nail into wood the wood fibers are broken and bent in the direction the nail was driven in. The nail is wedged in the wood. That is why a nail holds so well. It takes a lot of force to get back out the first time as you are breaking all the little wedges.

Same principle with the dog hair nail - it easily works it's way deeper in because the fuzz is already laid that way and only has to bend a few more ahead of its progress deeper. To extract it all the bent fuzz has to be re-bent in the opposite direction.

On the side, without the natural oils in wool or human hair "gluing" the rough cell edges down it is quite fuzzy or frizzy and will hold a huge static charge.