Its worked with my old textile biker jacket and its how i cleaned some crud off my work jacket before shoving it in the washing machine.
Waxed Cotton Jacket serious filth
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Its worked with my old textile biker jacket and its how i cleaned some crud off my work jacket before shoving it in the washing machine.
I like the smell of linseed oil finejust not on a silk skirt....or my denim jacket, or a handspun, handknitted jumper.......the boatyard can be hard on my clothes
The Stockholm tar's worse though
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Toddy
Stockholm tar is a wonderful smell, splash it all over.
first up washing it, start with a straight bucket of hot water and snow flakes to knock the worst off, been known to hose mine off before now to make it clean enough to bang into the washing machine, or just keep going with the bucket of warm soapy water.
the worst thing that will happen to that jacket is the wax will come off and so will all the crud. you cant hurt barber jackets
to re wax the jacket afterwards is also very simple to do as well, either buy shop brought or make your own, i am a bee keeper and on another forum i have a massive sticky of what to do with bees wax from candles to furniture polish and any else in between,
you can either use straight bees wax and just rub it on and then because it is sitting ontop of the fabric we use a hair drier to get it to stick to the fabric to soften bees wax we ONLY EVER USE TURPINTINE, either pure or copied we never use white spirits or any thing like surgical , just turpintine , i would suggest as a starter as a basic soft polish style we would go for a 1/3 mix.
so warm up a sauce pan with boiling hot water, put some thing in it to hold the wax before , durring and afterwards say a wide mouthed jam jar like a peanut butter jar, this is what i use for home made polishes for home but tins to sell off
add to the tin your bees wax, just to keep it simple for maths we will use 200grams it the ratio you want not the weights or volumes exactly then melt it in the hot water when its melted add to 100gms of turpintine liquid and mix like mad for 3 mins untill it starts to set and cool,
thats it that simple, if you want you can add extras like essiencall oils so it smells nice or try a 50 /50 mix linseed oil and turpinetine to make it slighty tacky,
any way rub it on just like boot polish and flash over with a hair drier.
if anyone is intrested in the bees wax stickly let me know and i will concider shifting over to here as well, but be warned it is massive and i am not re editing to suit you, pete
the worst thing that will happen to that jacket is the wax will come off and so will all the crud. you cant hurt barber jackets
to re wax the jacket afterwards is also very simple to do as well, either buy shop brought or make your own, i am a bee keeper and on another forum i have a massive sticky of what to do with bees wax from candles to furniture polish and any else in between,
you can either use straight bees wax and just rub it on and then because it is sitting ontop of the fabric we use a hair drier to get it to stick to the fabric to soften bees wax we ONLY EVER USE TURPINTINE, either pure or copied we never use white spirits or any thing like surgical , just turpintine , i would suggest as a starter as a basic soft polish style we would go for a 1/3 mix.
so warm up a sauce pan with boiling hot water, put some thing in it to hold the wax before , durring and afterwards say a wide mouthed jam jar like a peanut butter jar, this is what i use for home made polishes for home but tins to sell off
add to the tin your bees wax, just to keep it simple for maths we will use 200grams it the ratio you want not the weights or volumes exactly then melt it in the hot water when its melted add to 100gms of turpintine liquid and mix like mad for 3 mins untill it starts to set and cool,
thats it that simple, if you want you can add extras like essiencall oils so it smells nice or try a 50 /50 mix linseed oil and turpinetine to make it slighty tacky,
any way rub it on just like boot polish and flash over with a hair drier.
if anyone is intrested in the bees wax stickly let me know and i will concider shifting over to here as well, but be warned it is massive and i am not re editing to suit you, pete
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