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Hello...can anyone recommend someone local who repairs holes in cashmere jumpers? All the ones I've found (mainly west London) seem to charge at least ?40 per hole and several weeks wait! Seems a bit steep. Ideally I'd like invisible mending but if anyone can recommend someone good they've used who doesn't cost the earth then I'd LOVE to hear from you! Thanks.
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The 'Cashmends' are a brilliant idea - got to get some! Unfortunately i'd say that ?40-50 per hole is about right for proper invisible mending, which is a highly skilled job, and this place http://www.invisiblemending.co.uk/ is very, very good. They repaired a hole in a very fine knit cashmere sweater of my husbands, and genuinely, i couldn't see where the repair was at all, but it did cost ?50. Best idea is to stop 'em in their tracks before the damage is done. Pack all winter clothes away clean, and use cedar or lavender repellants as well as the pheromone moth traps (Zero Demi-diamond are good). Moths are most active in April/May when they are looking to mate and lay their eggs in some 'moth caviar' (better known as cashmere) ready for the pupae to hatch later and eat it all.
Moths like some places and not others, I'm trying to work out what it is. In East London and Elephant and Castle I was plagued by them, but in SE5 not a single one has shown an interest in entering my home, I keep my windows open at night and I don't even have to bother putting away my (two) cashmere jumpers. I am trying to work out what anti-moth properties my present house has, if I do I will post them!

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