Wool/Poly blend shirt repair

Do you have any scrap wool or polyester fabric of similar color?  If so, I might try the iron on, heat bonding stuff that is sold for “sewless”  fabric attaching.

Not sure how it would work on a primary wool blend though–I haven’t ever used it on that particular fabric.  Most of that stuff is a kind of polyamide, which is a polymer family that nylon belongs to. Perhaps because of that, it’s really good for bonding uncoated nylon fabrics together, and also pretty good for polyester. When using this stuff, it’s important to set your iron slightly below polyester, in the upper nylon range of heat.

Put a small piece of parchment paper below the hole so you don’t accidentally bond it to the below shirt fabric.

I don’t think tenacious tape will work, my experience is that anything stretchy will pop the tape off sooner rather then later, and wool doesn’t usually take adhesives well.

Since I wear mostly pure wool patching holes is whack-a-mole and I usually just ignore them, they don’t seem to grow on their own and I have a few shirts that have had a half-dozen pinholes for years.

I think darning is the most reasonable option if you don’t want to just ignore it.

“I think darning is the most reasonable option if you don’t want to just ignore it”

I agree. It’s too bad that darning is a bit of a “lost skill” . If you send me a picture I can tell you if I can do that for you, as long as it’s function and not looks you are after. Darned fabric is a bit like scar tissue so it will show but it’ll be tougher than the rest of the shirt.

Here is a little tutorial

I don’t care about looks just that the hole doesn’t get bigger and ruin the shirt.  I appreciate the offer Katharina.  Let me review my options I may can find someone local that can do a repair.