How to clean a felt hat at home with your own hands?

Like all garments, as a result of regular socks or, conversely,lose an attractive appearance. Alas, felt is quite a kind of material, so information on how to clean a hat from felt, is useful to many.

Simple ways to clean the hat

Before removing any dirt from the hat, it must be cleaned from dust. This can be done with a brush or a vacuum cleaner with a lint-free attachment.

• To clean the hat from street dust and sweat, in a ratio of approximately 1: 2: 2 mix the usual salt, ammonia and table vinegar. The resulting mixture is thoroughly stirred and wiped with contaminated areas of the hat.
• If some places on a felt hat have worn off from regular wearing and are very shiny, then you can correct the situation by slightly rubbing them with fine-grained sandpaper. Instead, it can be used table salt and a brush.
• Another simple recipe - dilute ammonia in water in equal proportions, moisten a rag in a mixture of coarse cloth. It should clean the soiled places, trying not to wet the felt itself, because it can deform.

We remove rain drops

Soaking due to bad weather or during cleaning, the product so that it will dry out evenly and not lose shape, recommend tightly stuffed with newspapers and dried in a warm dry place, but not too close to heating appliances.

To remove traces of raindrops, it is necessary to hold the hat for a while above the container with boiling water, and then to smooth the nap with a soft brush. Instead of a pot, you can use a household steamer, but do not hold its nozzle too close to the hat. An even simpler way is to brush the hat with a medium-hard brush, soaked in clean cool water. The same method will return the tarnished product the usual gloss and gloss.

Fighting traces of fat

To remove a fresh grease stain at home, it must be rubbed with a crust of dried rye bread. If it is not at hand, you can fill in fatty drops with salt, as is done for any other fabric. If the stain has time to get stiff, eat into a felt fabric and can not resist such simple measures, then you will have to use a more powerful tool - refined gasoline. In it, a rag or napkin is wetted, which the contaminated place neatly dries up. It is wetted, but not wetted, because otherwise the pile will remain caked in this place.

A mixture of refined gasoline and potato starch is quite effective against greasy traces. The resulting gruel is applied to the soiled areas, and after drying, they are brushed off. If there are any stains on the hat, they are removed with a rag moistened with water with the addition of citric acid or juice.

We clean hats of different colors

You can clean the dark felt articles with decoction of tobacco( a tablespoon of leaves per liter of water).In the resulting liquid, you should moisten the rag and gently wipe the stains. The only drawback of this method is the tangible smell of tobacco from the product. To get rid of it, you have to ventilate the hat for a few days.

Light products can be brushed. To do this, they are rubbed into the fabric, and then shaken out by tapping movements from the back of the hat.

Clear yellowness on light felt hats easily, using a solution with the addition of 2 teaspoons of ammonia and 4 tablespoons - hydrogen peroxide per 1 liter of water. In the mixture, you should moisten the dressing brush and gently clean the product, trying not to wet it.

Advice

Never use a product intended to remove stains from white felt on colored products. Most likely, such a stain remover irreversibly will damage the color of the hat on the contaminated site.

If folk remedies for some reason do not fit, you can use stain remover, strictly following the instructions for using it, or contact a dry cleaner.

Proper storage - a pledge of cleanliness of the hat

To prevent the hat from having to be cleaned too often, it is recommended to store it in a place protected from dust and damp. It's good if there are no sources of strong odors nearby, because the felt absorbs them perfectly. The ideal storage space is a dense cardboard box. If the hat is removed there for a long time, then it should be filled from inside with soft paper and wrapped in cloth. Do not hang your hat on the hook for a long time, so that it does not lose its shape.

advice If any contamination is rooted in the female hat so that it can not be cleaned by any of the listed methods, this place can always be decorated with something - a flower, a bow or any other decorative element.

In general, the unexpectedly appearing dirt on your favorite hat - not an excuse to hide it on the back shelf in the closet and run to the store for a new one. At home, to return the cleanliness and well-groomed appearance of a felt hat is not difficult.