Moths love wool

[Sylvain]

Ah, I see your point. Of course there is body oils, and dust is primarily human skin. :shrug:

No, spiders eat only living meat, i.e. other insects. But they may be there because of the wool eating insects, which they eat.

[kilted_ninja]

Could someone please explain steaming? I know this shows my extreme newbieness to care for fine cloth but I am absolutely petrified about damage to my investments. Is there a 'steam machine' that one should buy/rent? I know the missus wouldn't approve if I took out all the food to store my clothing there.

[skruse]

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A bit of humor regarding kilt checks.

[Bugbear]

Could someone please explain steaming? I know this shows my extreme newbieness to care for fine cloth but I am absolutely petrified about damage to my investments. Is there a 'steam machine' that one should buy/rent? I know the missus wouldn't approve if I took out all the food to store my clothing there.

There's several different clothing steamers... Jiffy comes to mind. I need to get a better one because mine plugs in and just starts putting out steam and there isn't much of a way to control it. Also most irons should have a steam thingy on them.

I saw someone back there brought up silverfish. That's a whole different beasty like a cockroach almost. You've got to fight those out in the walls and cracks.

Diatomaceous earth, roach motels,boric acid!! Done dirt cheap!!

Hmmm... I wonder if there's a way to use BT on the moth larvi...

[Chefdave]

Go to the local Evil-Mart and buy a couple of bags of cedar chips from the pet department.

Don't open them but just stack them in the closet around your kilts. Cheap and effective.

[DotDLL]

I lived in a place for a while that had a moth problem. The place became infested a few months before the lease was up, which didn't end up getting renewed. I had a wool kilt hanging up in my closet that, fortunately, never developed any holes. I'm not sure how that happened, other than luck; the kilt wasn't protected in any way.

It's my understanding that cedar tends to work well more by their construction than their smell, although I may be wrong about this.

[rollerboy_1979]

Could someone please explain steaming? I know this shows my extreme newbieness to care for fine cloth but I am absolutely petrified about damage to my investments. Is there a 'steam machine' that one should buy/rent? I know the missus wouldn't approve if I took out all the food to store my clothing there.

I have a full featured steam iron (Okay, I'm a Virgo..........I iron everything!), and it has a "shot of steam" setting. I just hold it up to the hanging kilt and give it a few shots of steam before I wear it. That smooths any wrinkles and freshens the wool. You may have that feature on an iron you or your wife already uses, so don't go buying an expensive steamer until you check that out.

Cheers!
RB