7: International Clothing Care Symbols

Jumat, 06 Mei 2016

International Clothing Care Symbols

Care labels provide helpful information that can save you time and money. One of the best laundry tips is to read and understand your clothing care labels.

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Ginetex based in france is the european association for textile care labelling and formed in 1963 after academic conferences in the late 1950s were formed to define one standard of labelling.

International clothing care symbols. The symbols are in black and white replacing the previous editions traffic light colours of green amber and red. Can be dry cleaned in any solvent bar trichloroethylene with additional restrictions on watermechanical action or temperature during normal dry cleaning process. Cleaner fresher clothes means longer wearing apparel.

The wash care symbols on your clothing labels provide special instructions to help you keep your clothes looking their best. Here are some of the symbols youll see regularly and what they mean. The labels were developed as part of the international organization for standardization iso.

And clothes that are bleachable are easier to get clean. Laundry symbols seem like another language but the washing instruction symbols on your garments care labels tell you exactly how to do the washing and drying as well as give extra information on bleaching and ironing. The laundry symbols on clothing and linen labels provide important information on how to take care of your investment.

B2b directory for clothes industry provided by apparel search company. American fabric care labels can be difficult enough to read but internationally manufactured clothing often provide different variations of cleaning care symbols. Care label symbols for clothing and fashion accessories industry.

This guide explains them all. In the new edition five basic symbols identify care treatments for washing bleaching drying ironing and professional cleaning.