Accessories
Black cable-knit wool beanie
Details
- Colour
- Formality
- Temperature
- Setting
- Type
- hat
- Size
- one size
Materials
- wool
Styles
everyday
Notes
A black wool beanie with a dense cable-knit crown and a ribbed fold-over cuff. A warm, textural, minimalist accent for cold and transitional days — black and texture in place of colour. One size.
Care regimens
Wool knit (wool, merino, cashmere)
every ~30 daysWash seldom, air often: refresh, de-pill with a shaver and rinse rarely on a cold wool cycle, always dried flat. Heat and agitation felt wool irreversibly — handle cashmere the most gently.
After each wear: Rest the knit a day between wears, reshape and dry flat, fold it (never hang), and store it folded with moth protection (cedar).
Everyday
After each wear and periodically.
- Air the sweater and rest it a day — most "washing" is really airing and de-pilling.
- Lay it flat and gently reshape it while it still holds its form.
- Remove pills with a fabric shaver along the grain, on a flat surface.
- Lift lint and stray fibres with a roller, pressing lightly.
Products and tools
What not to do
- Don't bear down with the shaver or roller — pulled fibres deepen pilling. Treat cashmere the most lightly.
When dirty
When the knit is soiled or has taken on odour — rarely.
- Hand wash, or use a cold wool/delicate machine cycle with a mild wool & cashmere detergent.
- In the machine, put the knit in a mesh wash bag to limit agitation.
- Do not wring or rub — that felts the fibre. Gently press the water out.
- Lay it on a towel, reshape it and dry it flat, away from any radiator or sun.
- Treat cashmere the most gently — the shortest wash, the least handling.
What not to do
- Never tumble dry and never hang a wet knit — heat felts and shrinks it, and the water's weight stretches it.
- Cold water and minimal handling only — heat with agitation felts wool irreversibly.
Restore
only when needed
Only when the surface is fuzzy and bobbled or the knit has stretched.
- Revive a bobbled surface with a fabric shaver — evenly, along the grain, without pressure.
- For a stretched knit, dampen it, lay it flat and block it back to shape, then dry flat.
Products and tools
What not to do
- Block a damp knit, not a soaking one — waterlogged and weighted, it only stretches further.
wool merino wool cashmere