"Aaron Lewis" wrote in message
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Lavender helps.
Cedar oil helps.

Keep in a tightly closed chest with sachets of lavender near any openings.
I use lots of cedar balls, which I renew each spring by soaking them in a
plastic bag with some cedar oil for a few days. Then put them into old
socks which I lay along the front of the closets and hang around the
closets.

Oh - that's a good idea, thanks!

Precious wool can also be place in a tightly woven bag of linen or nylon.
The bag should be hung in a bright an airy place such as an attack. This
is how the old timers kept their wool from spring shearing to late fall
when they had time to spin. Wool cloth was also kept in the linen bags
hanging in the attic until it was needed.

Moth larvae eat linen in our house - honestly. All the linen clothing
(period) I have in the cedar military chest is fine but that which has been
left to put away later (months ago) isn't. It takes longer for the larvae to
develop a taste for the linen but they go between the folds and pupate
there.

I put a little lavender oil in my rinse water when I am washing wool, and
have not had any loses since I started that program. (Of course I also go
through half an once of cedar oil each year.)

Lavender oil in the rinse water sounds very nice. I'll do that!

Mary

Aaron.




"Mary Fisher" wrote in message
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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