[Encyclopedia] maintenance of woolen knitted fabrics

Wool knitted fabrics, commonly known as woolen or woolen fabrics, are generally pure wool or wool-blend blended fabrics. Common blended fibers are polyester, nylon, tencel, cotton yarn, acrylic, silk, mohair and the like. The common techniques are knitting and weaving. The woven wool has occupied a large share of the woolen market with its mature technology and a large amount of production capacity, but the wool knitted fabric is presented with its unique style and close-fitting wearing. A luxurious and elegant fashion feeling. Nowadays, woolen coats made of knitted wool are becoming more and more popular.

Wool fabric has excellent performance: crisp body, warm and elastic hand, breathable and warm. Thanks to the blending process, woolen fabrics have been given more added value - please go to the "Wool Blend Fabric Classification and Features" for details. Different from other materials, woolen fabrics are designed to keep warm. At the same time, it can show the body shape without bloating. In the contemporary fashion culture, the woolen fabric coat has become a necessity for the winter against the cold, but the most annoying phenomenon often occurs, that is, the clothes are dirty. Here we will follow the characteristics of the fabric, telling everyone what to pay attention to when cleaning the woolen fabric coat.

1. The woolen feel of the woolen fabric comes from the main component of wool, but it is also easy to cause the woolen fabric to be easily deformed and lost during washing, and at the same time, if it is washed with water, if the fabric is squeezed with both hands, It will damage the fluffiness of the surface of the woolen fabric, causing the shrinkage of the knitted fabric and the phenomenon of pilling on the surface. This process will lead to a decrease in the warmth of the fabric. Therefore, it is recommended to send it to the dry cleaner for dry cleaning, not only to maintain the surface of the wool. The fluffy feel also keeps the shape of the coat fabric from damage.

2. If the clothing on the woolen fabric is accidentally stained, it should be cleaned in time. If it is left for a long time to clean, it will make the stain stay longer in the wool fiber, which is not conducive to the cleaning of the woolen fabric. Secondly, in the cleaning process, the friction at the stain will inevitably be avoided, resulting in the wool of the woolen surface. The fiber is damaged.

3. Wool fabrics should be avoided by machine washing during the cleaning process. Since the wool is prone to felting at a water temperature higher than 30 °C, the water temperature during washing should not exceed 40 degrees Celsius. Plus, the wool is more resistant to acids than alkali (the alkali easily decomposes the disulfide in the cystine of the wool, which damages the hair.) Therefore, try to use a neutral or weakly acidic detergent. The oxidant also destroys the disulfide group and damages the wool. Therefore, the wool fabric is generally not capable of some oxidative bleaching such as chlorine bleaching.

4. Wool fabrics are easy to get dusty for a long time, so it is best to remove them as soon as possible. If the time is long, it is easy to remove. In this case, you can't use a brush to brush. The scales on the surface of the wool will be damaged. Therefore, you can only tap it with a small stick and repeat it several times until it is cleared.

5. Woolen fabric coats are unscientific and easy to wrinkle the clothes. Use a steam iron to adjust to a low temperature and iron them slightly away from the clothes. Otherwise, the fibers on the surface of the woolen fabric will be burnt, and the surface of the woolen fabric will be lost. type. During the ironing process, the fabric is given proper humidity and flattened and creased. It is recommended to iron the woolen fabric garment after ironing, so as not to hurt the clothes or leave the ironing marks.

6. Wool fabrics are easy to be wormed during long periods of time, so we need to dry the woolen coat in a ventilated place, then put it in the cabinet and add a little desiccant to keep it dry and avoid insects.

Although woolen fabrics are warm and comfortable to wear, they are easy to pilling and easy to worm. We should do maintenance work to maintain a long service life.