taking my first alan made kilt to the cleaners

**Alan H** · 27th November 07, 02:33 PM

Originally Posted by The Wizard of BC

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Yes, I always tell my customers to baste their pleats before any washing.

It is far better to hand wash a good Wool Kilt.

Then baste and hand-wash, I shall...after Christmas, tho.

**Bugbear** · 27th November 07, 02:40 PM

You might even be able to support the window screne with the edges of your tub and leave it there until it has stopped dripping water or even until the kilt is dry

Originally Posted by Alan H

Hmmm...hand wash with woolite and lay out flat on screening? I have an old window screen. Hmmm.

**James MacMillan** · 27th November 07, 06:34 PM

Originally Posted by Ted Crocker

Hand washing works great, but I bought a fold out clothes drying rack to dry my kilts I've found that the kilts are difficult to lay flat because of the tapering at the hips, so I hang the tapered part over the edge of the rack and the pleats are very easy to flatten out and don't require much pressing when it dries.

Where did you find a fold-out drying rack? I've done some searches, but no luck yet.

**Bugbear** · 27th November 07, 07:19 PM

I found mine at a yard sale, but I think that Walmart has racks that set in a tub for drying wool sweaters. You might try those type of stores in the travel departments.

**James MacMillan** · 27th November 07, 07:46 PM

Originally Posted by Ted Crocker

I found mine at a yard sale, but I think that Walmart has racks that set in a tub for drying wool sweaters. You might try those type of stores in the travel departments.

You might be talking about something like these.

But I am looking for a flat one.

**Bugbear** · 27th November 07, 08:45 PM

The one I have is made of plastic coated metal bars and has legs and fold out wings, so it's like a table almost. I've been looking for one like it on the web, but haven't found anything yet. It looks like there are sweater drying racks on the web that could be put side by side to make enough space to spread out a kilt though. If I see anything like what I have, I will post it.

**auld argonian** · 27th November 07, 08:56 PM

These extravagant drying racks sound like a Lillian Vernon catalog item...

http://www.lillianvernon.com/catalog...Id=4&catId=157

Best

AA

**Daaaaang** · 28th November 07, 01:08 PM

ORDER'd!

**Andrew Breecher** · 29th November 07, 01:10 AM

Originally Posted by Daaaaang

ORDER'd!

That sounds like something from Homestar Runner's Teen Girl Squad.

Andrew.

**cacunn** · 30th November 07, 06:33 PM

I was working on winding some yarn into yarn balls and I heard a commercial for a Hamilton Beach sweater dryer. Having just read this thread my ears perked up. A multi-layer flat screen dryer.

http://www.hamiltonbeach.com/product...ion.php?page=1

you might want a look at this.