Sentence examples for cleaning silk from inspiring English sources
While there are commercial products for cleaning artificial plants, the ingredients may be too strong for cleaning silk blooms.
Soaking silk in cool water can be useful to prevent setting, but be sure to avoid spot cleaning silk.
Her father worked in textiles and specialized in cleaning silks.
Using common products found around the house can aid in cleaning the silk flowers without fading the color or causing the blooms to fray around the edges.
When he sees ichneumon wasps in a fleck of sunlight running about, searching, he harnesses language and his acuity of vision to describe the moment: "Every minute or two the wasps flip onto their sides and shudder their legs together, cleaning away the silk that spiders have strewn over the mandala".
She sat at her vanity in bra and panties (both silk), cleaning her neck with a ball of cotton soaked in eau de cologne, mowing lanes of cleanliness and then holding out the cotton to show me, with shared wonder, how black it was.
Select the delicate cycle on your washing machine If you don't want to spend money on dry-cleaning, wash silk sheets in a good quality washing machine that has a delicate cycle.
Although the ball-bearing reels he was cleaning seemed to be as smooth as silk, Arra removed those bearings and let them soak for a few minutes in a little dish that contained lighter fluid.
Clothes made from wool, rayon and silk are often marked "dry clean only," and you should have no trouble cleaning them yourself.
As a general rule, wool, silk, mohair, and non-colorfast fabrics are generally not suitable for cleaning with bleach.[3].
