Tips on Washing and Caring for Clothing Batik

Generally when we buy batik, we are often asked about the types of merchants, how to wash and care for batik cloth. Indeed reasonable and understandable, given batik on fabric is different with regular clothes. To that end here are some ways you can practice to wash clothes Youngsters batik:

1. When the wash cloth batik there are several options how we can do. First, it can use soap lerak (special soap to wash batik). Friends can get batik store or laundry. Or the most simple to use herbs salt dissolved with water to soak clothes before washing batik using regular detergent.

2. Two of which you can select. Henceforth, you should separate the newly bought batik clothes and washed separately from other clothes separately. This avoids kelunturan on other clothing.

3. Furthermore, you can soak a proper grading. Do not be too long and too fast.

4. It is suggested that you avoid using the washing machine. Use the washing machine it will damage the fabric batik batik especially if they were made of silk.

5. Kuceklah sections of batik clothing that does have stains, menguceknyapun way slowly and do not use a brush wash, simply by hand.

6. When finished, rinse with clean water by dip-dyed.

7. When rinsing gently squeeze. Squeezing too hard can damage the fibers of batik cloth.

8. After that, jemurlah batik using a hanger and place that is not directly exposed to sunlight. This is to prevent the color of batik is not easy to fade. Aerated enough.

9. Once dried, ironed okay to use regular board with a standard heat content. However, it is advisable to use to spruce up and melincinkannya handsteamer.

10. Keep batik in your closet. However, you should not use mothballs, because it can damage the fiber batik cloth. Instead we can use natural ingredients such as salt and pepper wrapped in a tissue and put into our wardrobe. This material is more natural will keep our batik clothes during storage in a closet.