• Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer
go to homepage

Search by
Category
  • Cleaning Blog
  • Automotive
  • Bathroom Appliances and Fixtures
  • Carpets and Rugs
  • Cats
  • Closets and Organization
  • Dogs
  • Electronics
  • Fabrics
  • Floor & Carpet
  • Floors
  • Food
  • Furniture
  • General Housecleaning
  • House
  • Household Appliances and Fixtures
  • Jewelry
  • Kitchen Appliances and Fixtures
  • Kitchen and Bathroom Surfaces
  • Kitchenware
  • Metals
  • Outdoors
  • Other Pets, Animals and Pests
  • People
  • Stain Removal
  • Stuff
  • Surfaces
  • Things You Own
  • Tools and Techniques
  • Walls and Ceilings
  • Windows
  • Everything Else
  • Ask us your cleaning question

go to homepage

How To Clean Stuff.net

Search by
Category
  • Cleaning Blog
  • Automotive
  • Bathroom Appliances and Fixtures
  • Carpets and Rugs
  • Cats
  • Closets and Organization
  • Dogs
  • Electronics
  • Fabrics
  • Floor & Carpet
  • Floors
  • Food
  • Furniture
  • General Housecleaning
  • House
  • Household Appliances and Fixtures
  • Jewelry
  • Kitchen Appliances and Fixtures
  • Kitchen and Bathroom Surfaces
  • Kitchenware
  • Metals
  • Outdoors
  • Other Pets, Animals and Pests
  • People
  • Stain Removal
  • Stuff
  • Surfaces
  • Things You Own
  • Tools and Techniques
  • Walls and Ceilings
  • Windows
  • Everything Else
  • Ask us your cleaning question

Home / Cleaning Guides / Clothing & Fabrics / Stain Removal / How to Remove White Tree Flocking from Fabric

How to Remove White Tree Flocking from Fabric

Table of Contents:
  1. You Will Need
  2. Steps to Remove Flocking
  3. Additional Tips and Advice

Cathy asked: How do I clean white tree flocking from fabric? My sister and I decorated an eight foot, live Christmas tree that was flocked for the Vancouver Rotary’s Festival of Trees a couple of weeks ago. I wore a 50% nylon/50% polyester light cover up because of the cold where we were and got the tree flocking all over it. It did not come out when I washed it. I only hung it up to dry, but the stuff is still stuck all over it. It I too tedious to just pick it off, and it doesn’t just brush off! I appreciate any help.

Tree flocking can be made of a few different things, cellulose perhaps most common, but no matter what the ingredients, this trick will remove a great bit of it from your clothing.

You Will Need:

  • Lint roller or
  • Wide packing or duct tape

Steps to Remove Flocking:

  1. Roll the lint roller over the surface of the fabric or wrap a strip of tape around your hand, sticky side out, and pat the fabric.
  2. As the surface picks up flocking, replace the roller sheet or get a new strip of tape.
  3. If you try a lint roller or another weak tape first and it does not fully remove the flocking, try a stronger tape like duct tape.
  4. Continue until all the flocking has been cleaned up.

Additional Tips and Advice

  • To pack a bigger punch, try Gorilla Tape from the makers of Gorilla Glue.
  • If necessary, turn the fabric over and work from the inside. This tactic may help you get the last stubborn bits of flocking off the clothing.
  • If the above trick still isn’t removing all the flocking, try using a fabric shaver.

Cleaning Guides, Stain Removal

Was This Guide Helpful?

+6
-3
Rating: 67%. From 9 votes.
Please wait...

Related Posts

  • How to Remove Christmas Tree Flocking
  • How to Remove a Gravy Stain from Fabric
  • How to Remove Tarnish Stains from Fabric
  • How to Remove Fabric Softener Stains
  • How to Remove Tree Sap from Clothing
  • How to Remove Kerosene from Fabric

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, conse ctetuer adipiscing elit, sed diam.

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit sed diam.


Thank you for subscribing!

Reader Interactions

About the Author

Avatar photo

Susan

I'm a stay-at-home mom who used to run a small housecleaning business. These days I consider myself more or a mad cleaning-scientist. I do most of the testing for our articles - as well as helping Mark & Melanie write them.

Leave a reply Cancel reply

Helpful comments include feedback on the recipe or changes you made.

show comments +

Comments

  1. Khatalyst says

    September 24, 2015 at 2:13 pm

    After accidentally washing a J.Jill catalog in a large load of cotton sweaters, jeans, dark towels and a few pair of nylon panties, when I opened the washing machine, it was quite a surprise. It looked like little cotton balls everywhere, and they were literally stuck to everything. The black nylon panties had a gray cloudy look. And nothing would come off the damp clothes.

    By the way, I only found out what I’d done when I found a few pages of the catalog that were stuck together and still readable. It was astounding that a little mail catalog could generate that much mess.

    I got virtually all of it off by a two-step process. First, I put small loads from that large load into the dryer, and ran it in ten-minute intervals, clearing the overflowing lint trap each time, before I started it again. When all that was done and everything was dry, I washed it all again in a large load, and dried in the same way in small batches, but this time using softener sheets for their anti-static capability.

    The second run generated a lot less lint, and I wound up drying each of those small dryer loads with longer runs. The result was virtually all of the lint gone. What was left I could brush off with my hand.

    The amount of lint that came off in total was astounding. Also, it was soft and pretty white lint; I was tempted to save it to experiment with paper making. (But decided no, I don’t need one more project.)

    This weekend I’m going to pull out the dryer, just to make sure that no lint escaped the process. Lint is the cause of dryer fires, so it seems like the right time to check.

    Reply

Primary Sidebar

Featured Guides

How to Clean a Hairbrush

How to Clean a Microwave Oven With ZERO Chemicals

How to Clean Every Dental Retainer

How to Clean your Macbook’s Screen

Join our mailing list.
Be the first to know about new arrivals, sales, and special events.
Thank you for subscribing!

Footer

Browse by Category

  • Automotive
  • Clothing & Fabrics
  • Floors & Carpets
  • Housecleaning
  • Kitchen & Bath
  • Outdoors
  • People & Pets
  • Household Stuff

Contact

  • Ask Us Your Cleaning Questions
  • Contact Form

Follow us on Social Media

Site Information

  • Cookie Policy
  • Guest Post Policy
  • Accessibility Policy
  • Privacy Policy
  • Terms of Service
  • XML Sitemap

Copyright © 2023 · HowToCleanStuff.net · All Rights Reserved · Website by Anchored Design