How to Shrink Wool Gloves
- 1). Fill a basin with warm water and a drop of wool detergent or a little dish washing liquid and submerge the wool gloves.
- 2). Agitate the gloves by hand by wringing, squeezing and generally splashing them about in the water for 5 to 10 minutes.
- 3). Pour out the warm water and immediately fill the basin with cold water from the faucet, submerging the gloves in the cold water to rinse the detergent from them. The change from warm to cold water will cause the wool fibers to contract and therefore the gloves to shrink.
- 4). Rinse the gloves several times in cold water to remove all the detergent, squeeze out the excess water and check the fit on your hands. If they are still to big, repeat the process from the beginning, but omit the detergent. Repeat until the gloves fit snugly on your hands.
- 5). If you do not want to wear the wet gloves until they dry, trace around your hands on thick cardboard and cut out the shapes. Place these templates inside the gloves and secure to them the cardboard with some rustproof pins at each fingertip and along the bottom cuff of the glove to hold the shape until the gloves are completely dry.
