Sorry… really sorry, I have been ignoring you and not blogged for a couple of weeks, but I do have good reasons…!My lessons have finished for this term so I have not had as much time to update the blog, but… and it’s a big butt, I have still being working on my chair! (most important)
I did the horrible task of washing the Horse hair! Ewwww… it was smelly and dusty!
I picked a really nice day, out in the back garden. I filled up two bucket things (plastic carrying things you get from garden centers) with hot soapy water and started to wash the hair. I washed in one and drained in the other… it ended up really really soft, and I could tease it all apart easily and pull out all the crap that was in it.I washed it a couple of times and had to carry the water out to the drain in the drive… (chiropractor that week-extra thirty five quid) the water that came out of it
was DISCUSTING!! I couldn’t believe how much dirt and filth came out.. but then again I have no idea how old that hair was.. it could be 100years old!! (and had a 1000 bums on it! He he) I left the hair out on my garden table to dry in the sun… I had to turn it a couple of times to dry the underside, but it dried really quickly (hardly had any time to read my book) and then I bagged it up and put it in the garage waiting for the chair!
Next stage, applying the hair… sooo excited!
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see ya'll later!
4 comments:
not so much related to the horse hair, but here is a post about socks with no heels!
http://knittingcrochet.suite101.com/article.cfm/spiral_socks_without_heels
Here's the link properly this time...
Well written article.
I'm glad someone else out there had also washed horse hair! my upholstery teacher told me to wash mine and i almost didn;t believe people actually do that. mine was completely and utterly disgusting. it seems my first mistake was doing it when it wasn't warm and sunny.
Mine seriously stinks and I was wondering if that is just what its like or whether i need to wash it more. My teacher told me to put it in an old pillow case and then just slosh it around in some soapy water. 45 minutes later i was still getting pretty dirty water coming out and then gave up. now its taking ages to dry (booo to rainy may weather!) any advice? i thinking scrap the old hair and buy new stuff.....?
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