There comes a point in every adult’s life - well, an adult who does their own laundry at least - where one thought will inevitably arise, and it is this. What is lint?
The strange, ethereal substance that collects on knitwear especially doesn’t seem to be of this world, and yet it is a build-up of tiny pieces of yarn, fibre and thread that get dislodged in the washing process. It’s a cleaner version of dust, itself made up of far more unsavoury microfibres like hair, dead skin cells and pet dander.
