Ewwww.... I'm so glad I prewash my Fabric!!!!
12-12-2010, 01:02 PM
#33
Member
Join Date: Oct 2010
Posts: 46
I have gotten really good bargains at yard sales like that, too. I could hardly wait to get home with it - and head straight to the washer. I've found sun-faded areas on folds of fabric, dirt, crumbs, dead spiders, but never what you encountered. Anything I get at sales like that always goes in the washer first thing, even when I hate to wait to get started on something with it.
12-12-2010, 01:17 PM
#34
Super Member
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Longwood, Florida
Posts: 2,910
Oh goodness, not all maggots are bad now. they are just going through the stage of larvae to butterfly or moth lol. Some maggots are specifically, surgically raised in the labroratory and used to heal wounds, in that they are applied to a wound with rotten flesh, covered with gauze and the maggots will eat all the rotten flesh away and probably save a soldier or somebody's life. This type of treatment is used used today. I would venture to say that the maggots in the fabric came from a moth.
I am also a washer of fabric. It is always a good idea to wash the chemical out of the new fabric. I think it's formeldahide, I use to be very allergic to it. I dont' know if they still use that but they use something. It also saves the fabric from getting rotten (cotten will rot over time) since we keep some fabrics for years, it is a good idea.
Also we handle fabric on a daily basis and we handle whatever chemical is on it and if your hands are getting dry or anything, this is one of the things to consider. My fabric is alway dropped the a basket in the laundry to be washed next wash day or if lot, right then and I hang my fabric outside to dry and the fold and store.
I am also a washer of fabric. It is always a good idea to wash the chemical out of the new fabric. I think it's formeldahide, I use to be very allergic to it. I dont' know if they still use that but they use something. It also saves the fabric from getting rotten (cotten will rot over time) since we keep some fabrics for years, it is a good idea.
Also we handle fabric on a daily basis and we handle whatever chemical is on it and if your hands are getting dry or anything, this is one of the things to consider. My fabric is alway dropped the a basket in the laundry to be washed next wash day or if lot, right then and I hang my fabric outside to dry and the fold and store.
12-12-2010, 01:18 PM
#35
Super Member
Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Glenmoore, PA
Posts: 7,941
Originally Posted by Rosyhf
Oh goodness, not all maggots are bad now. they are just going through the stage of larvae to butterfly or moth lol. Some maggots are specifically, surgically raised in the labroratory and used to heal wounds, in that they are applied to a wound with rotten flesh, covered with gauze and the maggots will eat all the rotten flesh away and probably save a soldier or somebody's life. This type of treatment is used used today.
12-12-2010, 01:24 PM
#36
Super Member
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Longwood, Florida
Posts: 2,910
Originally Posted by grann of 6
Originally Posted by Rosyhf
Oh goodness, not all maggots are bad now. they are just going through the stage of larvae to butterfly or moth lol. Some maggots are specifically, surgically raised in the labroratory and used to heal wounds, in that they are applied to a wound with rotten flesh, covered with gauze and the maggots will eat all the rotten flesh away and probably save a soldier or somebody's life. This type of treatment is used used today.
That's life and there are maggots everywhere....ahahahahah
12-12-2010, 01:28 PM
#37
Super Member
Thread Starter
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Outer Space
Posts: 9,319
Originally Posted by Rosyhf
Oh goodness, not all maggots are bad now. they are just going through the stage of larvae to butterfly or moth lol. Some maggots are specifically, surgically raised in the labroratory and used to heal wounds, in that they are applied to a wound with rotten flesh, covered with gauze and the maggots will eat all the rotten flesh away and probably save a soldier or somebody's life. This type of treatment is used used today. I would venture to say that the maggots in the fabric came from a moth.
I am also a washer of fabric. It is always a good idea to wash the chemical out of the new fabric. I think it's formeldahide, I use to be very allergic to it. I dont' know if they still use that but they use something. It also saves the fabric from getting rotten (cotten will rot over time) since we keep some fabrics for years, it is a good idea.
Also we handle fabric on a daily basis and we handle whatever chemical is on it and if your hands are getting dry or anything, this is one of the things to consider. My fabric is alway dropped the a basket in the laundry to be washed next wash day or if lot, right then and I hang my fabric outside to dry and the fold and store.
I am also a washer of fabric. It is always a good idea to wash the chemical out of the new fabric. I think it's formeldahide, I use to be very allergic to it. I dont' know if they still use that but they use something. It also saves the fabric from getting rotten (cotten will rot over time) since we keep some fabrics for years, it is a good idea.
Also we handle fabric on a daily basis and we handle whatever chemical is on it and if your hands are getting dry or anything, this is one of the things to consider. My fabric is alway dropped the a basket in the laundry to be washed next wash day or if lot, right then and I hang my fabric outside to dry and the fold and store.
That's it, I'll just tell myself they were butterflies.
12-12-2010, 04:15 PM
#40
Super Member
Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Lexington Park, Maryland
Posts: 1,052
Originally Posted by Candace
I quickly washed and dried the remaining fabric and fed the maggots to my chickens.
Thread
Thread Starter
Forum
Replies
Last Post
