An anti moth idea.

[tundramanq]

This is another idea for chasing away moths. I bought this Red Cedar Bedding at Walmart but most pet shops carry it.
No statement as to just which variety of juniper these are made from. So I oil with juniperus Mexicana.
I did this last January and forgot about it until now when I re-oiled the chips.

I poked holes all over the label side with a pencil.
Then, using a small funnel poked through a about 6 of the holes, if pour about a tablespoon of my juniper oil in each.
I clean off any oil drips that got on the outside and place it on the floor of the closet, hole side up.
The chips have absorbed the oil and will release it slowly.
The bag keeps the chips contained and prevents casual contact with the wool kilt from staining it with the oil.

[Terry Searl]

Does it make the closet and the clothes in it smell nice as well

[Steve Ashton]

Actually, if you are going to use oil extract, there is no need to put the oil on any more juniper wood. You could put it on a sponge just as well. A couple layers of paper toweling in a tupperware dish, or anything that will absorb the oil and allow it to evaporate slowly.

[tundramanq]

Terry - It makes the closet smell nice but I don't notice it on the bagged kilt. Maybe because I had just pulled my snout out of the closet getting a kilt.

Steve - A great idea! Taking it one farther, I will use a lidded Tupperwear or Rubbermaid container that I have punched holes in the lid of. Sliding my kilts around in the closet occasionally one comes unclipped and hits the floor. Ergo my requirement to physically separate oil from kilt in all instances.

The Bag-O-Chips I bought and poked holes in while Kathy was making my Wildcat kilt. Then I learned that all cedars didn't repel moths equally well. And then I got the oil and anointed the chips.

I read Lavender works too. It's hard to find definitive independent scientific research on the cedars or lavenders effectiveness.
Regrettably sellers will make claims and not site how they know. It's a lot of hearsay and colloquial evidence.

Toxics like mothballs and Raid are proven effective, but as someone is going to have to wear or press these kilts sometime, it is not an option.

[Steve Ashton]

Just test the tupperware first. Some oils will soften or melt some plastics.

Don't want a pool of melted goo all over the bottom of your closet when that kilt falls.

[ThistleDown]

Best to use a china dish -- some saucer that's lost its cup -- and not plastic.

Or do the organic thing. Clothes moths in the Highlands are just as damaging as they are in the US of A, but maybe we have a longer history of dealing with them. My advice (and I've yet to have a moth-hole in a long life of wool-wearing). Take your woolen garments off your warm body, spread them out on some flat surface such as your breakfast table, brush them well to get away the dust and the grime of the day, take them out into a breezy and dry place, hang them there until the next time you want to put them on. Don't fold and pack them away in a dresser drawer for some other year, or hang them cheek-by-jowl with others in a closed and dark closet.