How do you store cashmere? Cedar?

CharacterZero

Do you use cedar blocks?  I am getting ready to pack my winter stuff away and I bought quite a few cashmere sweaters this year.  I don't want them to get holes!

TX-Bride

I use lavender scented mothball satchets that I buy from Target. I get better results with those instead of cedar blocks.

ETA: I dry clean all my sweater before storing away.

Magdala9

The blocks are only good for small spaces.  Since I love cashmere and work in a cold office, I purchased a cedar chest for my many sweaters.  Sweaters in the chest have not been affected by moths.  DH has some cashmere sweaters too.  His are not in the cedar chest and he lost one to moths last summer.  We are looking at a second cedar chest or lining a closet with cedar. 

heliocentric

This year I'm going to use space bags (well, knock offs from Harbor Freight). Those are the bags where you can vacuum out the air. TBy removing the air they seal the clothes off from the moths and don't require as much storage space.

We have a cedar closet, but despite sanding it it still doesn't really smell so I don't think it helps. I don't find the blocks to do much unless they are in a very small closed space.

AmyDrinkie

The bottom drawer in my chest is cedar-lined, and it's "the sweater drawer."  I think it helps - I haven't had a single moth hole in sweaters stored in that drawer, but I've gotten 2 in sweaters that were stored in the closet.

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TX-Bride:

IETA: I dry clean all my sweater before storing away.

This is the most important thing to do before storing sweaters for winter. I also make sure all of my dress clothes are cleaned since moths attacked DH suit last year.