Originally Posted by G1nko

Mrs. G1nko is a knitaholic. Consequently, I'm up to my eyeballs in wool. Sometimes you can't open the front door for all the wool in the house. She would never wash wool in anything but Eucalan and would never put it in the dryer unless she is intentionally felting the wool.

Mrs. G1nko doesn't think you can restore the wool. The fiber loss is probably minimal; rather, you've changed the way the fibers link. In the future, use Eucalan.