Red Wine Stains

[turpin]

I was at a friend's house recently wearing my Davidson tartan. I spilled a goodly amount on the kilt and just about died. She said"No problem, get some salt on it" We went to the kitchennad she wet a cloth, loaded it with salt, and told me to hold it on the stain and dab at it occasionally.

The stain went away! It worked on her couch fabric too.

Works best on fresh spillage.

[mkmound]

Wow -- cool!! That's good to know.

[Rampant Lion]

I've seen the same thing work on blood stains. Oh those crazy halloween parties of yester year.

[billmcc]

I am glad to hear the salt worked! Otherwise, that glass of wine could have cost you the price of a new kilt and a new coach.

[David Dalglish]

Good news that you saved the kilt.

[Riverkilt]

Tell you what - I'd have been SCARED! Glad you had a wise lady there to save the day. And thanks for sharing a hint I'd never heard of before.

I think prompt action is essential too. I spilled orange juice on my Isle of Skye while trying to drink and drive at the same time. My lady was able to soak it up with napkins immediately, before it soaked into the wool. Seems none the worse for wear.

In my many years as a wine connoisseur I found the way to avoid the spilled wine problem was to dispense with the glasses and suck it directly from the neck of the bottle.

Ron

[Abax]

In case you're wondering, using salt to soak up a wine spill doesn't invoke a chemical reaction - it relies on capillary action to wick the offending liquid from the prized possession. I use the same trick to clean up after a puppy that has made a (liquid) mistake on my new carpet.

Abax

[Dirka Skene]

I've heard of doing the same thing with baking soda, only on dark fabrics it leaves a white residue.

[Kid Cossack]

I resisted wool for the longest time! I said to myself, said I, that "surely" we had come up with better options than to slavishly emulate the way they had done things in the past. I said to myself, "surely" we have come up with better materials for kilting than "ye olde school" worsted wool.

Gents, I don't apologize for thinking that way . . . but I'm starting to conclude that I was wrong.

I like PV. When I say "PV" I really mean "PV by Marton Mills" because that's what I've got experience with---and good stuff it be, too! I've got three USAK kilts in PV, and a philabeg from the Celtic Croft. Each of them gets good solid use, particularly in our nasty muggy Houston summers.

I may have thought that "surely" we can do better than worsted wool----but my beloved USAK casual Farquharson lost a fight with a cigarette at a pub one night. It's got a burn hole in the over apron that is, fortunately, covered by a sporran hanging only a bit low.

But I remember the cigarette falling (not from my hands) and hitting the apron . . . and how quickly I knocked it loose. And I look at the hole---probably 7mm. And I think about wool, and how wool just don't want to burn.

And I think about the high-tech gear my buddy Jared was wearing, over in Iraq, deployed with his teufulbuddies. And I think about how they're awaiting issue of new FROG gear . . . (Flame Resistant Outer Garb or Garments or maybe even Gear.) With IEDs, there was a danger that the manmade fabrics would melt and stick to skin.

IEDs aren't a major issue in my life. But the older I get, the more I look around and think, "hmm, worsted wool hangs well, is flame resistant, is pretty, breathes well . . . maybe them fools knew what they were doing after all."

[MacWage]

I resisted wool for the longest time! I said to myself, said I, that "surely" we had come up with better options than to slavishly emulate the way they had done things in the past. I said to myself, "surely" we have come up with better materials for kilting than "ye olde school" worsted wool.

Gents, I don't apologize for thinking that way . . . but I'm starting to conclude that I was wrong.

I like PV. When I say "PV" I really mean "PV by Marton Mills" because that's what I've got experience with---and good stuff it be, too! I've got three USAK kilts in PV, and a philabeg from the Celtic Croft. Each of them gets good solid use, particularly in our nasty muggy Houston summers.

I may have thought that "surely" we can do better than worsted wool----but my beloved USAK casual Farquharson lost a fight with a cigarette at a pub one night. It's got a burn hole in the over apron that is, fortunately, covered by a sporran hanging only a bit low.

But I remember the cigarette falling (not from my hands) and hitting the apron . . . and how quickly I knocked it loose. And I look at the hole---probably 7mm. And I think about wool, and how wool just don't want to burn.

And I think about the high-tech gear my buddy Jared was wearing, over in Iraq, deployed with his teufulbuddies. And I think about how they're awaiting issue of new FROG gear . . . (Flame Resistant Outer Garb or Garments or maybe even Gear.) With IEDs, there was a danger that the manmade fabrics would melt and stick to skin.

IEDs aren't a major issue in my life. But the older I get, the more I look around and think, "hmm, worsted wool hangs well, is flame resistant, is pretty, breathes well . . . maybe them fools knew what they were doing after all."

You cannot resist the Power of the Wool Side.

(unless of course you are highly allergic)