Sticky lint roller VS vacuum

[tundramanq]

Bugbear started a string about vacuuming kilts 15 months ago. In my mind the sticky (peel off the loaded sheet) lint rollers do more damage pulling fibers than vacuuming with the upholstery brush and leaves potential sticky residue. Stickys seem to leave behind a static charge or residue that causes the kilt to then really attract the dust and hair.

Just using a brush alone only moves the now even more static charged hair and dust to another spot requiring even more brushing.

I just did a black cotton duck that I wore yesterday picking up and mulching leaves with my lawn mower. I shook the kilt out after this dusting and layed it out for the night.

BTW - around the rose bushes, the duck lived up to it's reputation, several times we tangled and the duck always won. Not even a pulled thread - armor.

This morning I ran a wee experiment to compare rolling vs vacuum. I am using my ShopVac which is not a wimp on the suction side.
I vacuum while wearing the kilt, opening and lightly brushing the pleats undersides too. I rotate the kilt as I go using my thigh as my work surface. The vacuum was the only method that removed almost all the dust and got to the hair and dust in the underpleats with ease. The roller can only get to the surface dust. The vacuum pulls air through the fabric, agitating and removing all the loose dust. The dog hair comes off with the light brushing action and is sucked away. This kilt has sewn in pleats and the roller can't even get to the debris that collects in the underpleat edge.

I have done this on wool and Rocky's PVs also and find it creates a lot less fabric fuzzing. The Rocky PVs saw a lot of use and dehairing this summer to no ill effect. I used the roller only for quick spots and away from home.

I am really afraid to try either method on the fuzzing and pilling Acrylics.

I tried the silicone, wash-em-off, static attraction roller to very mixed results. Gentler than the stickys and no residue. Many synthetic fabrics seem to have more to about the same attractive power as the roller. You would need about a half dozen of them to do a whole kilt as they lose power very fast, then need rinsing and drying time to reuse. It now lives in the land fill.