On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 6:42 PM, Margaret Geiss-Mooney
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> Good day, fellow MuseumLers - If you are planning to handle the spinning
> fibre (what is fibre content?) with your bare hands and then use the
> thread/yarn to make something that you will be wearing against your skin,
> you should go ahead and wash the fibre in the hottest possible water with a
> synthetic detergent (and lots of rinsing) to remove as much of the mothball
> contamination as possible. Just because it doesn't smell as strongly of
> mothballs doesn't mean that the contamination level has dropped to a safe
> level to be on your skin. "Ounce of prevention = pound of cure" when it
> comes to your own personal health.

Thanks for the tip Meg!! As part of the setting process, the finished
yarn will be soaked in hot water with some Dawn detergent, thoroughly
rinsed and hung dry. This might be done a couple of times if it is
hand-dyed until the rinse water is clear. Then it will be washed again
with the same process after it is knitted up. I'll probably give
everything a good soak once I fumigate it enough so I can just handle
it.

Mothballs, a little goes a REALLY long way.

Deb Fuller

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