7/14/2010

How to Care for Silk Comforters

A silk comforter is a long-term investment. If you take care of her silk duvet should last 5-10 years, and perhaps much more. The silk fiber is unique in that it is incredibly strong and still very fragile, so be careful to keep a reward.

Always use a duvet cover with silk. Although this means that there will silk on the skin, it also means that the oils and the skin will not find their way and even silk. Use a top sheet is also recommended. Can and should wash often and the top sheet (at least once a week) and cover less frequently (eg monthly). A duvet cover to preserve and protect your comforter so that frequent cleaning of the quilt itself is not necessary. If you use a cover, silk comforter would almost never needs cleaning. It 'important that the cleaning process can cause subtle damage that will accrue if the cleaning is too frequent.

If you need to wash a silk duvet, it must be cleaned by professionals. Wash down a silk in water is almost certainly ruined. Be sure to call and ask their experience of cleaning with two duvets and silk cleaning. Often, cleaners who specialize in cleaning wedding dresses in silk are good candidates. Although dry cleaning is a possibility, there may be traces of chemical residues left behind and the process can harden the silk, if done repeatedly. Professional wet cleaning is becoming increasingly common, and is the preferred option.

"Healing Sun" is the traditional way of caring for a silk quilt. You need to aerate your silk duvet with this technique regularly, whenever it becomes heavy or starts to lose heat retention. That way, the place comforter in the sun (with cover) for an hour or two at most. silk because it has the capacity to absorb humidity, this process is dry, making it softer and lighter, and better insulation properties. Alternatively, you can enter the quilt in the dryer on low heat for a short period of time not exceeding 30 minutes.

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