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Help wool rug in washing machine

belfastgirl23 · 2017-09-10 12:32:31

As per title - a kind friend put my wool ikea rug through the wash while staying in my house. I have no idea why, except that it can get quite grubby looking if not hoovered regularly. Dried in the sun and it's gone all bumpy and wrinkly. Does any one have any advice? It's a long thin runner rug and was quite expensive but…

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belfastgirl23 Posts: 8,026 Forumite

22 July 2020 at 1:24PM edited 22 July 2020 at 1:25PM

Actually thanks for bringing this up again, it did go pretty much back to normal, I think because it was long and thin, damping it a bit and suspending it was very helpful as the weight of the material pulled the wrinkles out of it. And I tried it in a bout of very good weather so the sun might have helped in that process too.

Now if I have any friends with children staying when I’m away I roll the rug up and put it in the cupboard so I have also learned that much.

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