Possible - but I washed a dress I'd made out of "dry-clean-only"
polyester and lurex-type brocade, and it lost most of its substance
and drape, even though I only dipped it in and spun in out, didn't
agitate at all. Too bad, as it's my favorite Italian Renaissance
garb...
Depends on how much
Janice Blair wrote:
most of which says dry clean only.
I'd zig-zag around the edges and throw them into the machine -- but not
until *after* getting rid of the labels. Glue is almost impossible to
remove after you've washed off the paper.
Bear in mind that fabric marked "dry clean" often
"anyone know an easy way of removing the labels from the back"
WD40?!?!?
Seriously though, I think you may need a solvent of some sort to remove the
glue as it's likely to be the sort that can be put on by machine - and not
water soluble if the material is really dry clean only or the wetness o
Janice,
Perhaps one of these may work:
http://www.creativehomemaking.com/articles/021604m.shtml
Although the fabrics say dry clean only, if they're small samples, you may be
able to wash them by hand.
Avital
> Today I was downtown and happened to walk past an interior
> decorating shop. In
Today I was downtown and happened to walk past an interior decorating shop. In
the doorway was a box of books of sample fabrics so I helped myself. The
pieces of fabric will come in useful somewhere but does anyone know an easy way
of removing the labels from the back. On most of them they ar
