I know that to prevent bearding of a wool batt (not commercial, but loose from the ranch), it is to be encased in cheesecloth. Is there only one kind of cheesecloth? It's so holey, I am skeptical about it keeping the wool from bearding.
Also, I'd like to wash the batt to pre-shrink it. If I do this, will it be pre-shrunk to the max? or would it continue to shrink after it's in a quilt?
TIA .... Lobo ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Delete the obvious to reply to me personally. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The cheesecloth you buy at the grocery is not actually cheesecloth. I think they probably just flung that name on it because it sounded more like something somebody would pay money for than "furniture polishing rag".
When it comes to making cheese, any fairly loose woven thin fabric will do. DH raided my stash and took some of my harem cloth from Dharma to use. He now swears by the stuff for cheesemaking. I imagine that just about anything akin to that would do for a wool batt.
So far as preshrinking it, I doubt very much that you could get all the shrink out of an untreated wool batt. If you did you would have wool felt. If having it preshrunk to the max is important, I would be looking to Hobbs. You could skip on the cheesecloth then too, I imagine the price would even out before you were done.
NightMist
The thing is, I already have the batt ... but when it's used, I'll definitely look to Hobbs!
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