Don't let the dry cleaners ruin your fine cashmere!
-Pour room temperature water in a basin.
-Add a few squirts of the Laundress Wool
and Cashmere Shampoo.
-Agitate the water and detergent by hand to mix.
If sweater is stained: Pre-treat any stain with stain solution.
Penetrate stain solution into the stain. NO RUBBING, just use your thumb to penetrate the treatment into the yarn.
-Add sweater to water basin
-Move the sweater in the water for a minute by hand
-Let it soak for at least a half hour * Note if you left sweater soaking over night
it will not harm it.
If you see color in the water DO NOT PANIC this is totally normal, especially with black or dark items. This is the yarn dye and you will not notice any loss of color at the end. All dyed yarns release color.
- Run room temperature water into basin to rinse out soapy water, run water until soapy water is gone.
- Take soaking wet sweater out of the basin. DO NOT WRING THE SWEATER.
- Lay towel over flat surface and place sweater completely flat on the towel.
- Roll the sweater up in towel (like a rolling pin) to remove the water.
- Lay sweater flat on drying rack or on a towel.
- Do not expect to wear the item the same day as washing. Allow to dry overnight.
*To help speed up the drying process, you may have to use a more than one towel and do this several times to get as much water out of the sweater as possible. We recommend a using a drying rack with a flat mesh surface. This helps sweater dry faster than drying on a towel. Sweater will dry overnight if on a mesh drying rack. On a towel it might take longer because you have to flip it.
When sweater is dry simply fold it or wear it.
If you are going to store it spray with the Laundress Cedar Fabric Fresh.
If machine washing: Only machine wash with cool water in a delicate cycle with The Laundress Wool & Cashmere Shampoo. (Best in a mesh bag) Wash items inside out to minimize pilling. DO NOT PUT IN THE DRYER
Remember: fine items are truly more protected when hand washed in a nice tepid bath and dried flat to keep their natural shape.
