Originally Posted by valsma
What a sweet thing for that gentelman to have done for you. He must have know how important that stuff was to his wife and that she would want someone to have it that loved it to.
The following is a solution from planetgree.com it says this should remove the smell. Have never tried it but it is worht a shot.
Luckily for all of us, there are ways to remove cigarette odor that don't require heavy laundering or expensive product-buy.
Fill your bath with hot water. Just an inch of water or so should do the trick.
Add four cups of vinegar to the bath.
Hang your smoky clothing above the bath.
Shut the door to the bathroom. This will allow for steam to develop and linger.
Let the steam do its work! Steam from vinegar water has long been shown to remove odors, like smoke, from clothing.
What an interesting solution for the problem. I will have to try that on some of the fabric--will help prevent thread tangling in the washer with the smaller cuts and I can save the washing machine for the larger cuts. Can even use my canning and stock pots to boil water for a lot of steam. As humid as it has been here, it shouldn't be to tough to make steam (LOL). Can even recycle the water for several loads and then use it on my stinky dogs!
Thanks!