Style Blog — Textile Science

Stain removal how-to guide for washable fabrics Every so often, we all seem to manage to inadvertently spill food on our clothing. Knowing how and what to use to get the stain to come off will allow us to wear our favorite shirt a few more times. Listed below are a few solutions: Tomato sauce: scrape off excess, apply a solution of 1 tablespoon clear soap in 10 ounces of water, blot with a damp towel to remove any residue. If the soap solution did not remove the whole stain, apply a few drops of white vinegar.Mustard: flush the stain with white...

Dyed garments versus pigment garments We all know have some idea how dying a piece of boy's clothing is done. We might have even experimented with tie-dyeing t-shirts as a fun family project on a sunny spring weekend. Coloring an item with pigment is more liking using a brush to apply color to the fabric rather than soaking in a coloring solution. This is because pigment dye is not actually a dye, instead, it is a light-reflective or light-absorbing coloring that coats the fibers of a piece of fabric. A traditional dye penetrates the fibers and colors the whole fabric with an...

What is the difference between cotton and Pima cotton? Cotton is used in so many items we use every single day. Everything from the towel you used to dry off after your shower this morning to the pair of socks you slipped after getting dressed. Cotton: After the cotton plant blooms a ball of protective fibers forms around the seeds. These fibers are collected and used to produce yarn which is then woven into fabric. Cotton fibers are used for clothing, household fabrics, medical swabs, pads and more. Cotton is a fairly simple to use fiber, it accepts dyes readily...

On average most families in the United States washes approximately four hundred loads of laundry each year which is more than one load per day. First, you'll need to tackle sorting: Each item should have a label with washing instructions and material composition. Some will have instructions spelled out and others will show some (or all) of the symbols in the graph below. Laundry machine clipart illustration by Andy Nortnik courtesy of mzayat.com Use several laundry baskets, label each one. At our house, we use  One for thicker fabric items like jeans and sweatshirts, one for any variation of red or pink, one for...