Wollwalk: How you can maintain the fabric - utopia.de

Wollwalk is made from wool that was matted in a controlled manner.Thanks to its special properties, Wollwalk is valued for natural children's and functional clothing.But the production of Wollwalk can be problematic.

Wollwalk is a violent new wool.Walking is a traditional manufacturing process in which woven wool is specifically matted.The resulting woolwalk has special properties: it is durable, windproof, water -repellent, wrinkle -free and very good heat retention.

Among many rural populations in Europe, Wollwalk was the most important clothing material for centuries.Nowadays, he continues to play an important cultural role and is used as a greedy loden, for example in Alpine traditional costumes.Due to its unique functionality, Wollwalk is also highly valued in the clothing industry and is often used in outdoor and children's clothing, especially in outdoor and children's clothing.

Wollwalk is manufactured as complex

Wollwalk is created in a complex manufacturing process from woven wool or wool mixtures.

1. Zunächst findet das sogenannte Noppen statt, durch das Verunreinigungen aus der Wolle entfernt werden. Nach einem Waschgang wird ein zweites Mal genoppt.
2. Danach beginnt das Walken. Beim Walken wird die Wolle durch Drücken, Stauchen, Kneten und Pressen in warmen, schwach alkalischen oder sauren Bädern kontrolliert verfilzt.

Wool has a scale -like surface structure and thus a natural felt capacity.If the wool is now violent, the scales on the outer layer of the wool fiber irrevocably get along with each other.The tissue gives the tissue a uniform appearance and a compact handle, as the fibers are compressed.This also creates air chambers in the tissue in which body heat is enclosed.In this way, violent fabrics keep very warm, but avoid a heat build -up.

So care and clean Wollwalk properly

Wollwalk is a durable and easy -care fabric.Since the wool fibers are heavily compacted by walking, bad smells and dirt usually only remain on the surface and do not move into the woolwalk tissue so deeply.That's why you really have to wash woolwalk in the rarest of cases.Pay attention to the following tips when maintaining and cleaning:

Regularly ventilate

You can counteract an unpleasant odor formation if you ventilate the woolwalk from time to time.It is best to hang him outside in a wet and cold night.During the day you shouldn't hang the Wollwalk clothing in the sun, otherwise it could bleach.

Remove light dirt

You can remove small spots without washing.First let the pollution dry completely.Then you can brush them out with a clothing brush.

Wash Wollwalk

Nur bei ganz hartnäckigen Verunreinigungen solltest du Wash Wollwalk und auch dann nur per Handwäsche.In the machine it can even happen in the woolenwash that the garment is entered into.

Basically the following applies: the fewer you wash Wollwalk, the better.If you wash it too often, this can lead to losing its natural water and dirt-repellent properties.Then a lanolin cure is necessary, which serves to infilter.

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How sustainable is Wollwalk?

Wollwalk consists of new wool.No sheep are killed for this wool, but often the new wool production is still linked to animal suffering.Due to the great demand, wool is largely produced in mass production these days.

This mainly takes place in New Zealand and Australia and often using cruel methods such as mulesing.Mulesing is said to keep the animals from flying, but the young sheep are removed parts of their skin in the anus area and mostly without anesthesia.Mulesing is therefore prohibited in Germany.

In order for the wool to be created from new wool, an elaborate manufacturing process is necessary, which means that the costs for a piece of clothing from Wollwalk can be high.That is why there are no longer many companies in this country who produce Wollwalk.Much of the fabric now comes from China.

In terms of environmental friendliness, the import of virgin wool and Wollwalk production from so far away regions should therefore be viewed critically.The transport across such long distances goes hand in hand with the emission of climate -damaging gases like CO2.In addition, less rigorous environmental and social standards are often valid in China.

On the other hand, Wollwalk is a valuable fabric because of its unique natural properties, which can be a more sustainable alternative to purely synthetic fibers, especially in the area of functional and outdoor clothing.The latter are often based on the finite resource of petroleum, for which nature is destroyed and animals and people are sold out.This causes art fibers when washing microplastics.

More on the question of how sustainable wool is compared to artificial fibers, you can find out here: What is more sustainable: clothing made of wool or synthetic?

Tips for buying Wollwalk

If you decide to buy woolwalk, you should pay attention to a few things:

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