"spampot" ""spampot\"@NO SPAM orph.org" wrote in message
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Mary Fisher wrote:
Today I took out a shawl which a daughter knitted for me some years ago
from her own spun Hebridean black wool from the two Heb ewe lambs I gave
her. She'd chosen the stitch 'candlelight' because I made beeswax
candles.

It had huge holes in it and it's unsalvageable.

Does anyone know of any home moth-proofing system?

Obviously it will be for future items but we'd hate it to happen again.
We're both very unhappy (Spouse and I - I haven't told daughter yet).

Mary

How terrible to have such a significant piece ruined! I'm so sorry.

We keep our woolens in a cedar closet, and my yarn bags all have blocks of
cedar (it's actually American juniper) scattered through them, but as
others have mentioned, mixes with lavendar in them should help as well.

Your health-food store might have bottles of juniper essential oil, which
you can dab on cotton or cardboard and place in your closets.
My sympathy.

Thanks for the sympathy - and suggestion. I have a bottle of oil of juniper,
I'll dig it out. It's far too late for the shawl butI have other woolens.

Oddly, the ones in my drawers don't get moth, it's a Victorian chest of
drawers so might have some cedar in it anyway. We have a large military
chest in which I store our wool and linen period clothes, they're not
affected by moth and I know that's cedar.

Mary