Millets do them, £6.99 in the sale green ones tht roll up and come with straps bout 1 metre by 1.8 metres good stuff
Wool blankets supplier?
- Thread starter Matt Weir
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My kit arrived yesterday.
Crikey, how itchy are wool blankets???!!! Any advice for washing and softening them please?
Crikey, how itchy are wool blankets???!!! Any advice for washing and softening them please?
I found those blankets were always itchy, never discovered a way to cure that. It's easier to sandpaper yourself to toughen the skin.
Wash with comnditoner, lots of it! On the final rinse, chuck some baby oil in. It doesn't mae them really soft but it takes the edge off! They will soften with time. Also, get a liner for it, those picnic blankets I mentioned earlier are perfect for the job.
Aiye, I have a liner plus a nice soft polyester fleece and really the wool is an outer to cover the lot but I can imagine it bugging the bejeezus out on my chin in the night.
[Shut up Matt - what do you want? Comfort?]
That would be nice?
[Well stay at home in bed then!]
BAH!
You have a beard don't you? That'll offer some protection!
I do Spam but I rear the velcro effect LOL
That'll do the job. As the man says though it does take time. Though he probably left out the liberal applications of rifle oil whilst weapon cleaning and the large quantities of carbon that used to induce sessions of washing blankets (we could get ours done through the laundry, but they came back like someone had starched them).
In training I saw a number of different options including the usage of an elecric razor to shave the inner side of a blanket.
In the end though time heals all and although it seems that your blanket is considerably softer it's not.
You see by the time you think it is soft you now have a hide like a rhino with calluses, that's had its skin hardened with witch hazel and surgical spirit.
Don't fear the velcro effect, it'll save you the cost of buying razors
I always wondered why the army blankets didn't have a fabric covered end strip like civvi ones do. It's just to harden up rookie squadies then, is it?
Why not just stitch over a narrow strip of sheeting? It doesn't need to be satin ribbon after all
cheers,
Toddy
Why not just stitch over a narrow strip of sheeting? It doesn't need to be satin ribbon after all
cheers,
Toddy
Most army blankets alos have a corner piece missing. Usually a foot square has been cut off. This can be very confusing for pepople who have never had to bump a floor. The square piece of blanket is aid under the hand bumper and allows a highly polished sheen to floors. Also, pieces of the blanket were often tied to the boots to stop the buffed floor from being marked before an inspection. Woe betide anybody who walked down the centre of the corridor whilst the floor was being bumped!
What I hated more than anything else was someone coming in and saying "Not good enough, it requires more effort", normally comments like that were followed with "Strip it back and start again."
We had parquet (sp??) flooring in both the barrack rooms and corridors. More brass and copper than we new what to do with and it all had to be gleaming. Bulling rags are for boots, blankets on the other hand are pretty good for most anything else
You can even use them in layers as insoles for your boots
Toddy said:
From what I can see the design of the army blanket hasn't changed since the dawn of time, but if you had put an expensive strip of thin but tightly woven cloth around the hem you probably would of found that the squaddies of the day would of used it in their muskets, so what would be the point of putting it on there in the first place.
I'll send you a few litres of my yellow stale urine if you need it Matt! I'm sure other members will oblige aswell!
I'll send you a few litres of my yellow stale urine if you need it Matt! I'm sure other members will oblige aswell!
Would this fall under the catagory of a group buy???
Actually you have to be careful with that stale urine, ammonia, it's really alkali and will happily destroy wool. Wool survives best in acidic conditions......which is why it survives in peat bogs ammonia is a really good degreaser, cleans the gunk out of wool too.
http://scifun.chem.wisc.edu/CHEMWEEK/Ammonia/AMMONIA.html
Toddy......closet science nerd
ammonia is a really good degreaser, cleans the gunk out of wool too.http://scifun.chem.wisc.edu/CHEMWEEK/Ammonia/AMMONIA.html
Toddy......closet science nerd
