Originally Posted by hobo2000
I have a friend who imports from Bali and I buy many pieces from her and they always smell. She says they are fumigated 3 separate times, once before going on the ship, twice coming off the ship and many times when we unwrap we find dead bugs. I wash these in warm water, rinse in cold water, re-rinse in warm water and hang to dry. I never dry in a dryer as some of these pieces are too delicate for that heat.
It makes sense that they would be fumigated that many times, but ew! I have a friend who told me I would die if I knew some of the dead things she's pulled out of fabric boxes, including a dead scorpion. :shock: