New – not necessarily clean. It concerns both clothes, and bed linen. Before for the first time laying just bought sheets, it is necessary to wash surely them even if linen is acquired in the checked place. It will save from considerable quantity of troubles – unexpectedly arisen allergy, paint stains on body and home clothing and even from skin diseases.
Why washing is necessary?
Before appearing in your house, the bed linen goes long way. After production the rolls of fabric lie in warehouse for which ideal purity of racks it is difficult to be charged.
Though storage conditions of fabric are strictly regulated, the producer is not always ready to observe them, and sometimes and has no such opportunity – for example if there is not enough place, rolls can directly spend some time on floor.
Then material comes to the raskroyny shop, and from there – in sewing. At most factories the process of tailoring of linen takes place in the conditions far from sterility – on fabric there can be at least dust covering surfaces.
On the place in which you have acquired bed linen depends how many people concerned it to you. If this linen of solid manufacturing firm bought in specialized shop is credible degree of its purity. However it happens that people acquire bed linen in normal shops and even on street trays – before purchase the packing could be developed, touched, perhaps, not too clean hands. Therefore washing is necessary not only to remove from pollution fabric, but also for destruction of microbes. Sometimes just bought linen has a little unpleasant smell. It occurs for several reasons. Fabric could absorb foreign smells in storage time, especially in case the tightness of packing has been broken. The smell can give to linen structure for fabric processing – the finish coat including starch, synthetic pitches and other substances. At the first washing the part of structure is washed away, and linen becomes more softly.
Dressing is necessary for giving to fabrics of rigidity, increase or lowering of hygroscopicity.
Linen can smell and because of the paint applied on fabric – in this case the technology of coloring, most likely, has been broken, and sheets can fade.
How to wash new clothes?
It is optional to wash at high temperature new clothes – will be delicate washing at 40 degrees enough. Before sending linen to the washing machine, turn pillowcases and blanket covers inside out. So you will be able to avoid friction of fabric about the internal surfaces of the machine because of which on material ugly whitish scrapes can be formed. It is necessary to iron clothes if it is intended for the child or it was strongly rumpled when washing. In other cases everything depends on your personal desire. New linen which long lay in cabinet or is acquired in the place having no credibility it is also best of all to iron before the first use.