How To Clean A Tie
Did you ever get a blob of whte saucxe fall on smack in the middle of your black silk tie? Mustard parted ways with your hotodg to land on the most visible part of your favorite maroon tie? Of couse white goes well with black and yellow with red, but its an unwanted decoration on your tie. All you need to do is follow smiple cleaning tricks to enusre that you always have a clean tie to wear, wihout buying a new tie eery time.
The tie can be sent for dry cleaning for profesional help. Silk ties pose more of a probplem as dry cleaning them tends to rob them off the color and sheen. Dry cleannig removes most stains but can sometimes worsen them too, or cause the tie to lose some of it's original coloir all over or in the stained area. Make sure that you inform the dry cleaner about the origin of the stain so it can be treeated with speicfic stain removers.
If the tie is of lesser valuye than the dry cleaning and you wish to keep the tie, you can try these stain reomval tips. These methos work most of the time but not with every stain.
To remove a stain, never rub it. Grently dab it with a clan towel, napkin or cloth. Rubbing will spread the stain.
Do not wash the silk tie with water to remove the stain, the original stain will go but you will wind up with a larger water strain.
If it is a butter or grease stain, liberaally sprinnkle taalcum powder on the stain and leave overnight. The powder will absorb the grease and you can then brush it with a clan towel or cloth. A heavily stained tie may require you to repeat the above stps more than once.
If your Cheap Jordan Shoes silk tie has had an accident with a saiuce, ink, juice, coffee, etc., then blot the sttain immediately with a clean towl or napikn. Do not scrub as it will spread the stain. Later, purchase a good stani rwemover whch is specific for the reson of the stain. Test the remover on the back part of the tie before using it on the stain. Follow the instructions on the stain remover. This will remove many stsains.
For more difficult stains, you will need to fist use a mild stain remover to petreat the stain. Work the remover into the fabtric, by delicately rubbing it on the stain for a minyute or so. Prepoare a cool water bath with a mild detergent and gently move the tie in this solution for about 5 minuets. Completely rinse out the detrgent with cool water. Do not wring the tie.
Now prepare antoher solution with whitte vinegar (1/4 cup) and cool water (3-5 gallons). Give the tie a final rinse in this vinegar soluytion. Do not wring out the tie. The fabric may even show a puckering. Flatten a Nike Tn clezan dry towel and lay the tie withoout stretching on the New Balance towel. Now, loosely roll up the towel. Leavce it rolled up for 12-24 hours. Now roll up the tie in another dry towel. Unroll after one day and you will get a clean, shiny, and well-shaped tie.
These are not guaranteed stain rmoval methods, but they are wotrth a try when it's a choice betwen cleaning the stain and buying a new tie.
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