Maintenance methods of silk clothes
1. Wear care
Don't sleep on mats, cane chairs and boards. Because the silk fiber is relatively thin and can not withstand excessive friction, it is better not to scratch on one's clothes. As the long fiber holding force of silk fabric is not as good as that of other blended fiber fabrics, it is easy to cause silk merging due to the influence of external force, which is also called arranging silk and wrapping silk. Do not spray deodorant or perfume, do not place camphor pills.
Because these are chemical clothes, easy to damage silk, especially white silk, such as touching these will make the fabric yellow. When wearing silk skirt and trousers, special attention should be paid not to ride a bicycle, so as to prevent severe friction between the fabric and the seat cushion, resulting in turning over and displacement. It is not suitable to wear silk clothes when sweating a lot.
2. Preservation of silk garments
For the preservation of silk clothing, thin underwear, shirts, trousers, skirts, pajamas, etc., should be washed and ironed before collection. Clothes, coats and cheongsam, which are inconvenient to be removed and cleaned in autumn and winter, should be cleaned with dry cleaning method until pressed to prevent mildew and moth. After ironing, it can also kill bacteria and insects. At the same time, the boxes and cabinets for storing clothes should be kept clean and sealed as far as possible to prevent dust pollution.
(1) Silk clothing has strong hygroscopicity. It is better to hang the clothes with hangers and keep them ventilated when not wearing them. Do not store the silk clothes in wet or strong light places, so as to avoid mildew and discoloration.
(2) It is not suitable to use iron clothes hanger to prevent rust pollution. It should not be stored together with articles that are easy to fade or dye.
(3) Pay attention to the damage of clothes caught by hanger hook during storage.
(4) Silk clothing is best to hang and store, keep dry, insect repellent must be wrapped in cloth, do not directly contact with clothing.
(5) Hang the clothes in the dark place to prevent the fabric from yellowing due to the direct illumination of the light.
(6) It is necessary to ventilate regularly and should not be placed in plastic bags for a long time.
(7) When white and light colored silk are placed at the same time, it is better to separate them with "safety" items.
(8) The clothing made of georgette and double wrinkled fabric should not be hung for a long time. Because of its own weight, the garment will become longer and longer. When storing, it should be lined with cloth and placed on the upper layer of the cabinet to avoid wrinkling.
(9) Silk clothing should not be placed together with tussah silk clothing, because the raw materials of tussah silk clothing are mostly fumigated by sulfur, which will change the color of silk clothing.
(10) avoid desiccant, cosmetics, perfume and other directly stained silk clothing. If it is accidentally contaminated, it should be cleaned in time, otherwise it will turn yellow or black.
3. Ironing silk garments
When ironing silk garments, the wrinkle resistance of silk garments is slightly worse than that of chemical fibers, so it is said that "wrinkle free is not real silk". If the clothes are wrinkled after washing, they need ironing to be crisp, elegant and beautiful. When ironing, air the clothes to 70% dry, spray water evenly, and wait for 3-5 minutes to iron again. The ironing temperature should be controlled between 130 ℃ and 140 ℃. The iron should not touch the silk surface directly to avoid aurora. It must be covered with a layer of wet cloth before ironing, in order to prevent the silk from embrittlement or even scorching due to high temperature. Note that ironing should not be high temperature, not direct ironing.
How to wash silk oil stains
Silk stained with oil, it is best to send it to the dry cleaner for dry cleaning. If mothers want to wash it by hand, you can remove the oil stains on silk by following the steps below.
After the clothes are contaminated with oil, squeeze some toothpaste on the stains, gently rub them for several times, and then rub them with water to remove the oil stains. The oil can also be removed by smearing alcohol or salt solution on the oil spots. If it is cooked oil soiled clothes, soak with warm salt water, and then rub on soap to wash can be removed. If there are oil stains on silk clothes, you can mix talc powder into paste and apply it to the oil stains. After staying for a period of time, remove the talc powder, and then pad a thin paper on the silk, and iron it with a not too hot electric iron.
(1) When degreasing and depigmentation of silk clothing, put the oily part on the palmar Mound under the thumb, also known as (fish muscle), and apply stains respectively.
(2) Rub up and down or left and right (don't turn around) and clean after the stain is removed. The washed clothes are removed with a fluffy deoiling agent. Dry cleaned clothing is removed with a dry cleaning pretreatment agent. It is recommended to dry clean silk clothes.
