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My following comment is not about clothes, but not long ago I washed some curtains that were hanging in a window for some fifteen years. The amount of lint that
by kazinator 10mo ago
My following comment is not about clothes, but not long ago I washed some curtains that were hanging in a window for some fifteen years. The amount of lint that came out in the dryer was incredible. I'm talking inch-thick wad on the filter screen, growing another inch with continued drying, after being removed.
It was probably due to years of UV breakdown of the fibers from daylight.
- IAmBroom 10mo agoOr accumulation of (invisible) hair and clothing fibers by the coarse curtain fabric over the years.
- kazinator 10mo agoThe lint had a very homogeneous consistency: it was almost snow white with few inclusions deviating from that, almost resembling polyester pillow stuffing in some regards, except for having a different structure (much shorter fiber strands, probably).