How to fold and wash luxury clothes
Fancy fabrics usually consist of cotton or linen, some varieties of silks, as well as many varieties of knitted fabrics. These fabrics often have embroidery, intricate stitching, or other embellishments. As washing these clothes is eventually necessary, these luxury details, together with the fragility of the material, require a careful washing and folding by hand. Washing fabrics by hand allows you to watch the fabric closely as you wash it to make sure it stays in one piece.
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You will need to:
- Bowl
- 1 gallon of distilled water
- 1/4 cup mild washing solution
- 1/4 cup non-chlorine bleach
- 1 tablespoon of quality cleaner
- drying rack
- Clothes steamer
Steps to follow:
1
Fill a container with 1 gallon of distilled water. Add 1/4 cup of a mild washing solution. Pour in 1/4 cup of non-chlorine bleach. If your elegant clothes is old, use one gallon of distilled water with one tablespoon of quality cleaning paste.
2
Mix the solutions with your hand until well combined. Immerse the fabrics in the solution. Don’t swish or squeeze them if they are old. Have time to do the work. Remove clothes from the water once the water appears dirty.
3
Fill the container with distilled water and rinse the clothes. Remove the fabrics if they are not old. Place the clothes on a drying rack. Let it dry naturally away from heat or sunlight.
4
Turn on an electric steamer at a medium setting, and iron the wrinkles out of each luxury cloth by running the steam over the entire fabric. Keep the nozzle about 20 centimeters away.
5
Place each luxury fabric in front of you with the wrong side facing up. Fold the right side of the fabric toward the center line. Bring the left side of the fabric to cover the right side. Fold the top of the fabric down to the bottom edge. Fold each fancy fabric the same way, and stack them, one after the other with the center mark facing out.
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Tips
- Don’t fold old fancy fabrics, instead wrap them in acid-free tissue paper.
