You have a few silk ties and its about time you got it cleaned. However you don’t really know what you should do, and previous failed attempts made you throw away those ties. Here are a few tips that will help you though.
If you own a silk tie then you are probably aware that silk ties were never meant to be cleaned in the ordinary way that other fabrics are cleaned. Silk ties cannot be laundered or dry cleaned because the chemicals used to dry clean can cause damage to your silk tie. Water is also a silk tie’s enemy and may cause the tie to shrink.
Because silk ties are quite delicate and need to be handled with care, you ought to be careful not to make them dirty or to stain them. They were never really meant to be cleaned and when you have to clean them, the cleaning process might even damage them. However you really cannot avoid your silk tie from getting dirty. In that case you need to find an effective way of cleaning them against the backdrop of the risk that they might get damaged. Thus the moment you know that your silk tie needs cleaning, you have to act immediately and find a way to clean it with minimal or no damage at all.
A fabric pretreatment spray that can make your silk tie stain resistant is commercially available while some are manufactured with a blocking agent. Despite this, you need to be careful when you use your silk tie. You can use a tie restraint like a clip or tack and tuck a napkin under your shirt collar when eating. Having done that, there will be no need to worry about your tie being stained. Should there be a need to clean a stain on your tie however, you can try a few of the methods below.
Firstly, you have to act fast when your silk tie stains as the longer you wait, the more difficult it will be to remove the stain. Use a paper towel and a small amount of stain remover to remove a stain on your silk tie. You need to start carrying one if you want to act quickly but if you don’t have stain remover, you can use a clean napkin that you can dip into a little soda water or club soda or blot the stain with paper towel.
If the stain is greasy, you can sprinkle a little talcum powder or corn starch on the greasy spot as fast as you can without wasting any time and then allow the greasy part of the silk tie to ingest the powder as much as it can. After some hours, you can brush off the remnant using a clean soft cloth. You have to bear in mind that a stain remover might in all likelihood tarnish the silk shirt. If you have not been successful in removing the stain completely, then you will have to have the silk tie professionally cleaned although there is again no guarantee that this will work either.
Resouce : Hendrik Pohl www.articlesqueeze.com
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