WARM TIPS

How to todistinguish and protect pure silk clothing

• Brief intro

      There are several different kinds pure silk in the world:Mulberry silkworm pure silk;Tussah pure silk;Cassava silkworm pure silk;Castor oil plant silkworm pure silk,and so on.But here and now,we just talk about how to to distinguish (to man made silk) and protect mulberry silkworm pure silk,which is most famous product from long time ago in China.

•  Differences between nature pure silk and man made silk

1，Observe them, according to the nature pure silk can "Imbibe rays",you will see it appears silky shine like nature pearls,it's nither dazzling lights as specular gloss under sun nor dim ancient surface like a second hand cotton dress.

2，Touch them, the nature pure silk is very soft and smooth,but once you rub it lightly you will find a different feeling to man made silk, career man can hear a spcial"Silk sound"from it,but we can't vouch this method,that's hard to todistinguish them by ears.

3，Burn them,if you can find a piece of nature pure silk,the details of its burning is very close to burn feather,it never initiat burn unless you kindle it and it smells like burn hair (protein) .After burning,it always become to black dust,never left plastic granules as man made silk does.

4，Chemical medicine test,we don't suggest this methed too,it's the best effective shortcut to test materials but after that you may damage your clothes.Whatever,we won't sell fake pure silk,how many silk in each dress we will label the proportion on it with honest and precise.

• How to protect your pure silk clothing

1，Man made silk never shrink over wash,but pure silk does.All the pure silk clothes we offered you have shrinked twice before they made to clothes.So don't worry, their size won't change.

2，When you wanna wash your pure silk clothing,first please dip them in cool water with special silk wash (or litmusless soap powder) for a quarter hour,then wash them by gentle hands.Don't use alkaline wash!Don't use washing machine and dryer!Don't rub them on washboard！

3，Clean them in clear cool water and squeeze out some water by gentele hands,then hang them in the shade with lining outside.Don't hang them under strong sunshine!Don't drying them!Just let the drips dripping to dry.

4，If the hand made embroider on your dress is very complicated,please just send it to dry cleaner.

5，Make sure the iron temperature is 130℃below,iron the pure silk dress with underlay when it's half wet.Don't iron it too long (not good to protein) !

• How to save pure silk clothing

1，Save them in the shade and keep separate to each other.

2，Don't set camphor balls with them,or their colour will change.

3，Don't spray perfume or deodorizer straight on them;

4，Pure silk's weak fibre can't endure any form hard friction,keep it away from rough furnitures;

5，Rejuvenate old pure silk clothing to soft and smooth,you can choose white vinegar thinner.

P.S:Are the sentences too boring to you?

Just bear in mind one word is enough: Dry cleaner!

Although they are made of protein,make sure you won't eat them！

(These words were wrriten by KangShu,please let me know before you borrow them.)