There's no quota on your odor, that's right, you smell

Post date: 2020-09-29 05:18:04
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How can we get ancient odors out of a quilt?

My wife finally got around to doing the thing that a lot of people with a ton of old concert t-shirts say they're gonna do, and she had quilts made of them. They both look pretty amazing, but...they reek. Most of the shirts are from the late 80's and into the 90's, and they've been sitting in closed plastic bins for at least 25 years until late summer, when she sent them to the quilt-maker. So, they're quite musty.

As soon as we opened the bins, we knew smell was an issue - we washed the shirts before sending them off to the quilt-maker, and that cut it a bit, but when we got the quilts back, the first thing we noticed was how the smell is still very strong.

We tried washing the quilts with this stuff, on the recommendation of the quilt-maker, but it didn't really do anything. We tried dousing (well, spraying aggressively) with Febreze, which also did nothing.

So I'm looking for ideas on how to deodorize really old odors. We unfortunately don't have access to outdoor space, as we live in a condo, so that's not an option for us. Have you tried anything that works to remove persistent old odors?
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