If you’ve bought a wool sweater, you’ll find that it’s easy to wear it and have it shrink, so can it recover from shrinking? How to wash the wool sweater will not shrink?
The actual fact is that you will be able to get a lot more than just a few of these.
The wool sweater is mainly made of wool material, and wool has shrinkage, generally wool sweater shrinkage can be recovered, the recovery method is as follows.
1、Steam
Put the wool sweater into a pot and steam it for about 10-15 minutes. The wool sweater will regain its normal elasticity after high temperature heating.
2、Ironing
Ironing the wool sweater is also a way of high temperature heating. Use a hanger to hang the wool sweater, and then turn on the iron to keep ironing, about 5 minutes after the sweater will be able to pull the wool sweater apart.
3、Soak
You can also put the wool sweater into water to soak for about 30 minutes, the water needs to be added to the softener, and then the sweater will be pulled apart and dried with a drying rack.
How to wash a wool sweater without shrinking it?
Turn over wash.
The main reason for turning over is to reduce the friction of the clothes, so that the clothes are not easy to pilling and can help keep them new.
Warm water washing.
Wool sweaters are made of wool and are not resistant to high temperatures, so you can’t use hot water when washing them. Generally speaking, warm water of about 35°C is the most suitable.
Neutral detergent wash.
The stronger the alkalinity, the stronger the cleaning ability of the detergent. However, for wool sweaters, alkaline detergent may damage the fibers of the clothes, so it is recommended that a mild detergent is best, while a ratio of detergent to water of around 100:3 is best.
Can I dehydrate my wool sweater in the washing machine?
A: No.
Wool sweaters cannot be machine washed or dehydrated because they are made of wool, and wool is an animal fiber. The washing machine will cause the clothes to felted during the agitation process, and will also cause the wool sweater to shrink, and the shrunken wool sweater may not be able to be worn normally.
When cleaning wool clothes, you need to prepare about 30 degrees of warm water, then add neutral detergent and stir well, put the wool clothes, soak for about 20 minutes, gently rub the clothes with your hands at the stain, stain elimination after using water for rinsing.
Can I iron my wool sweater?
The wool sweater can be ironed, but there is a lot of attention when ironing, as long as the correct way to iron will not affect the quality of wool sweaters, specific ironing considerations are as follows: 1.
1, ironing before you need to clean and dry the wool sweater before ironing, so that the wool sweater is not easy to shrink deformation.
2, different wool sweater ironing temperature is different, including coarse wool fiber ironing temperature in between 135 ~ 145 ℃, fine wool sweater fiber ironing temperature in between 120 ~ 160 ℃.
3, ironing can paw a cloth to avoid high temperature direct ironing, ironing order can also be from the cuffs, collar, clothing surface and then to the clothing folds.
4, ironing can choose to hang iron, so that the temperature, moisture evenly distributed to the wool sweater inside, for part of the wool sweater has been deformed, you can choose horizontal repeated ironing, ironing immediately after the hands to restore stretch.
