Hand washing works great, but I bought a fold out clothes drying rack to dry my kilts I've found that the kilts are difficult to lay flat because of the tapering at the hips, so I hang the tapered part over the edge of the rack and the pleats are very easy to flatten out and don't require much pressing when it dries.
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Wash something in woolite sometime after you get it back from the dry cleaners. You'll be amazed at how much filth you get out of it. Personally, I like to know that the gunk on my kilts is my gunk and not from the last hundred items that were "cleaned" in the same fluid.

To each his own, but I swear by the Kathy Lare method of hand washing in woolite and laying flat to dry. I use an old patio screen door w/ fiberglass screen. This preserves the lanolin and other oils in the wool, prevents excessive felting and is quite easy.