oh no oh no oh noooo

[Pleater]

I'm beginning to suspect it was not a tissue.

These are individual white fibres, quite short, but distinct fibres. They are firmly enmeshed in the nap of the fabric.

The effect is not unpleasant - now it has dried, it could be a sort of fancy fabric,

Having shaken it and preened the pleats I seem to have a perfectly acceptable grey kilt - I even have several tee shirts to match.

Yes - deep breaths - I can live with that, there is no damage done to the structure, it just looks different.

All I need to do now is to make a new black kilt.

And apologise for the strange transmogrification of himself's shirts.

Anne the Pleater :ootd:

[tundramanq]

Anne, now dream up an exotic name for it for the unique patina.

[fluter]

Anne: in the final analysis, I would simply blame the cat.



tundramanq: Everyone knows the way to break in a Workman's is to turn it for a couple of days with gravel slurry.

[tundramanq]

Flutter, It twas my sentiment with the duck workmans till I started this game in the dryer. Severel have seen many wash cycles with Downey and after the hang dry, I can still stand the kilts on the table on their pleats. After 15 minutes in the cold dryer with the dozen tennis balls, they are "almost" as soft as my denim workmans (they get about 5 minutes).


The pressing table I take with me on long trips for the wrinkles that seem to happen even neatly folded. You can guess the truck I drive from my name. My sister takes a dim view of me using her wood diningroom table for pressing. LOL

Best cure for leg cramps is to keep your foot out of your mouth - working on it - LOL

[Bugbear]

A gray kilt and shirt sounds very nice, Pleater.

[Pleater]

Goth ancient perhaps?

[Bugbear]

Goth ancient perhaps?

If that's what it means to you, Pleater.
I guess you're talking about modern Goths and not "gothic."

A little while back, I had been trying to look into a particular historical attire, not gothic, in relation to the kilt, but found only dead ends, even here on the forum. I just don't have the resources to dabble into kilt history.

[Pleater]

Well - I was thinking about Whitby - nice little town, but it features in Dracula - where he landed in England - and apparently there is a strong 'goth' presence there these days - young people who seem to wear more makeup than clothing. There was a recent TV program about it which I found by Googling.

They must be made of strong stuff as the wind from the sea starts off in Siberia, from what I recall.

What clothing they do wear appears to be black, though being young and impoverished, (probably due to buying all that makeup and the creams to remove it and then other creams to counteract the effect of all that makeup and the salt laden wind) some of it seems to have faded to grey.

Perhaps now I will not be mistaken for a Free Cornish person. Their kilts appear unfaded. Maybe they are rich and can afford new ones, or perhaps they buy man made fibre kilts which do not fade so easily. Maybe they only wear them to go out at night.

So many inponderables.

Anne the Pleater :ootd:

[tundramanq]

Molded peach?
Faded memory?

Think I like Ancient Goth better.

[Bugbear]

All that is gray does not Goth, Pleater…