So my down underquilt, which was a rescued and re-purposed old throw made of some sort of polyester sort of material sort of fell apart today.
After a gentle bath-tub wash attempt this evening, the whole bloody thing disintegrated on me. I managed to rescue very nearly all the down, albeit a huge soggy mass just now, so I'm going to have to make my own quilt now and reuse the down.
My big question is, does down really ever 'wear out'? will the clusters break down to the point where they aren't much use? I've got a couple old down pillows I can sacrifice to top off a new quilt, but they're a bit flatter (a LOT flatter) than they used to be. I'm just curious if this is because of actual degradation of the down, or if it's just that a lot of down has escaped over the years.
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