hoçw to make a mohair sweater realy hairy and fuzzy

[tourifur]

If you want to have a realy fuzzy and hairy sweater (or a mohair blanket) there is the good technics :
---1) You must have a good water spray (the same as for garden) fill it with water.
---2) spray water in fine drops on all the sweater
---3) shake strongly the sweater. The water drop will go away and their weight will beginn to let the hair start growing on the sweater surface.
---4) take a hair metallic brush the same type used to comp pets or cats (plastic are not so good as the spikes are too agressive with mohair wool)
---5)brush your mohair sweater or blanket very hard. The surface water will have the same effect as oil on motor metallic surface : it will prevent the tearing off to much hair from the mohair surface.
---6) Shake strongly the sweaters to make rise the hairs you have rised from your brushing.
---7) repeat the whole process (water...brushing...shaking...) 5 to ten times... you will have an extraordinary hairy and fuzzy result with very few hairs remove from the sweater.

--- Never brush a mohair sweater dry as it will pull a big quantity of woll out of teh sweater.
---The shaking is as important as the brushing to make the hairs rise.

[cresta]

Sticking it in a plastic bag in the deep freeze for half an hour before you want to wear it is supposed to work quite well too...

[tourifur]

I do not knew this technics, thanks . Do you brush it afterwards ?

[cresta]

Sorry...!! Don't know....!! Never needed to try it; its just something I read that was put up in an old forum by an experienced knitter...!!

As far as I know, you don't need to brush them after...but guess its up to you..!!

[wetsweat]

...or you could just wear the sweater in the bath and follow the instructions thereafter!!