Originally Posted by
bearisgray
I started soaking unwashed fabrics in buckets, pans, or bowls before washing them.
Sometimes I wonder what came out of the fabrics when I look at the water. I'm not talking about dye that has been released.
dust from the mfg plant, dust from shipping and who knows what the foreign mfg use in the fabric. It's a crap shoot.
Some years ago a friend & I bought one of those Cheapo Quilts made in China, just to tear it apart and see (other than slave labor) what made it so cheap. Well, the fabric was crap to start with, but the inside batting was and still is a mystery to us. We found short coarse hair, like either rats or dogs and there was A LOT OF IT. I would never want to sleep under anything made in that country.