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Maintenance of Silk
 
   
 
     
 
 
 


for silk :

1. wash:
(1)If you want clean the dirt or spot ,you’d better send it to a dry-clean store , telling them the details(what is the dirt, when you made it ,have you already treated it )

(2)If you want to clean it by yourself ,pay attention to the detergent, choose a neutral one, and the temperature of the water, below 30 °c, after you clean it ,steep the silk in the water with some drops of vinegar for several minutes, making your silk scarf brightly. Then hang the silk in shady place .

2.preserve:
(1)Silk is very easy to crease up , the best way to keep them straight is to hang them up when you do not use them. if the silk crease up, you can iron it in low temperature with a cloth below it.

(2)A piece of silk scarf can make you more elegant when you’re in a ball or party, but remember that your perfume or loose power can’t be used directly on the silk.

(3)Silk can endure friction, so do not tie a knot in the same place frequently, or this place will lose luster and become cottony .

(4) Please keep the silk dry and keep them away from insect-resist agents or dryer.

(5)silk yellowed due to the ultraviolet radiation (uv) and long-time lighting ,not for the wrong way of cleaning and preserving, so you’d better keep them way from the light.