Curtain Care – Tips For Washing Your Caravan Net Curtain
For today’s blog post we’re going to show readers how they can effectively care for their net curtains. Here are a set of tips to help you in your curtain washing! Different curtains need to be cared for differently, and curtain care takes a lot more importance when it comes to caravans, considering you’re moving about.
Sheer Glass Fiber Caravan Curtains – these types of caravan net curtains need to be washed using your hands and they are not supposed to be ironed. When you wash these curtains you should make sure that they are not twisted and mangled. The threads tend to break when you treat this curtain roughly. The dirt accumulated on these curtains would just slide off easily, so do not follow any slap-dash methods. These curtains just need to be washed and rinsed. There is absolutely no necessity to add starch or blue to them. Letting them drip for some time and rolling them over in a towel would dry them up completely.
Sheer Washable Rayon Caravan Curtains – Mild detergents and unadulterated white soap flakes can be used to wash this type of caravan net curtain, and they have to be washed in warm water. Clothes pin are not supposed to be used to hang them after washing them up because rayon fibers are brittle when they are wet. The moisture in the fiber has to be absorbed by using the Turkish towel. Ironing can be done if the manufacturer has mentioned that it can be ironed, else, the risk has to be avoided.
Silk Caravan Curtains are luxury class curtains and they need to be maintained the same way we maintain scarves and summer dresses.
Washable silks should be hand laundered in lukewarm-to-cool suds. Usage of mild detergents is preferred. Silk needs to be handled gently and the suds need to be squeezed in gently through the fabric. The fiber gets damaged badly if any rough treatment is meted out on the curtain. Turkish towels need to be used to soak them dry, and later they can be hanged indoors away from the external heat.
Iron silk when the dampness in it is uniform. Completely dry silk tends to have watermarks when ironed. Pongee, is always ironed either when it is totally dry or when it is uniformly damp. Silk has to be ironed from the wrong side, and cheesecloth can be used as protection over the silk so that the cloth doesn’t get scorched. Do not iron silk when it’s too wet, it will become hard and papery. Ironing silk with excess heat would turn the white color to yellow color.
Lace And Net Caravan Net Curtains are dry-cleaned pretty often. Measure them before washing so that they can be set back to the correct dimensions later. The lace curtain threads can easily be broken, so utmost care has to be taken while handling them. Gum Arabic or gelatin can be used in place of starch to stiffen these curtains. First, they are added in cold water, and later they are heated up till the gum Arabic dissolves in water. Silk and rayon are also treated with the gum Arabic solution.
Sheer glass fiber caravan curtains should be washed by hand, and must not be ironed. Certain Silk curtains are can be easily washed, but they need to be laundered by hand in warm water with mild detergent.
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