Hops destroyed my clothes! How do I fix them?
I worked on a hop farm last summer and I washed my work clothes with all of my regular clothes. After doing that, all of my dark clothes (black, navy, dark green) were covered in this white stuff in random spots like on this pair of sweatpants.
It doesn’t rub off easily at all and I’ve tried using tape or a cat hair roller to get it off but none of it worked. I stopped washing my work clothes with my regular clothes after that and I put affected clothes in a soap bath and let it soak and tried to scrub it out. Even still it persists after I’ve washed my regular clothes a million times.
I think it’s either the hydrophobic lupulin powder from hops or fungicide they would use to spray them (hopefully not that. Would that be potentially harmful to me?) Does anyone who understands or grows hops know what this is and how to deal with it? Thanks!