How to Clean a Wool Pressing Mat – Two Easy Ways!
I cleaned my wool pressing mats recently, and I’m going to show you how I did it!
I was prompted to clean my pressing mats because my irons had started getting gunk on the sole plates – a sure sign I had let my pressing mats get too dirty!
Below you’ll find my short video all about how I rescued my wool pressing mats so I didn’t have to buy new ones!
Links to the products I used are below the video!
I hope these solutions work for you too!
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Cleaning My Wool Pressing Mats – Video
Wool Mat Cleaning Tool vs Cat Hair Scraper Tool
The first tool I used to rescue my pressing mats was a Cat Hair Scraper that looked suspiciously like the more expensive Wool Mat Cleaning Tools I’d seen advertised.
I bought my Cat Hair Scraper for about a quarter of the price of the Wool Pressing Mat Tools that cost more and are marketed to Quilters.
This tool will work well for you if you have a light layer of residue, dirt or threads to clean. The sharp metal teeth help you scape up the top layer of your mat – warning you will end up with a pile of wool fluff!
Here is the link for the Cat Hair version: https://amzn.to/4jaci5h
Men’s Electric Hair Clippers
The tool that finally solved my issues was my husband’s electric hair clipper (I call it an electric razor in the video as my husband uses it for his beard).
I used the long metal teeth of the clipper first to lift the gunk and dirt and then turned it over and shaved off the excess fluff created by scraping the top layer of the cutting mat.
This is going to be my first port of call for a solution to dirty wool pressing mats if this happens to me again. It was so much easier than the manual tool above.
Men’s Hair Clippers similar to the ones I used: https://amzn.to/42kMGvr
Before and After Wool Pressing Mats
This is the before and after transformations of my pressing mats. I hope these solutions work for you too!
The one above came out a bit ‘fluffier’ than the others but still much better than it was!
