Removing tar from clothes?

[MDM]

Can anyone recommend how to remove a tar like substance from a set of DCs clothes?

I remember my GM removing tar from the clothes with butter. Put the butter on the stain when the butter turn black on top scrape and then hand washed with washing up liquid, before putting in the laundry. Not sure how good was the result (more to avoid spoiling something else than to actually remove the stain, IYSWIM)
Stain devil has a tar stain remover, ins't it?

"tar like"

where did it come from? barbeque? beach? road? roof?

white spirit will do it but it will leave a stain.

Once it has been washed it will not come out.

I got creosote out of a jacket using the stain devil - it worked brilliantly!

Butter...

It appeared after sitting on some decking inns friend's garden (creosote?) Piglet.

I think I will try the stain devils. Thanks all!

if it was old railway sleepers (or old telegraph poles) they used to be impregnated with creosote (which is also irritant to skin and not good for heath, so it is not generally licenced for public use any more). It tends to bleed thickly from knots and cracks when heated by the sun, and has a distinctive smell.

Modern decking is more likely to be treated with an oil, or a stain, which is easier to clean off. But use your solvents before you wash with soap, as it will tend to fix oily stains. Some of this year's decking oils smell of linseed oil (cricket bats). It might even be yellow sap bleeding from softwood knots, which can be softened with white spirit, but hardens into a gummy varnish.