1. Notes on correct laundry care
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Garment care label symbols
Drying
Normal/higher temperature
Reduced temperature:
Select
Gentle tumble
(for delicate
textiles)
Do not tumble dry
Ironing
Very hot
Hot
Warm
Do not iron
Laundry care when drying in a
tumble dryer
See the "Programme chart".
This describes the programmes and
gives their maximum load.
– Load according to the optimum
amount of laundry recommended for
the programme being used. Under-
loading is uneconomical. Overloading
gives a poorer quality of drying and
may cause unnecessary creasing.
– Select an appropriate drying level,
e.g. . . .
. . .
Normal
if you want to fold and put
away the laundry after you take it out
of the dryer.
. . .
Machine iron
if the laundry, e.g.
table linen, requires further pro-
cessing after drying.
– Down-filled garments have linings
which have a tendency to shrink, de-
pending on the quality of the item.
They can be partially dried using the
Gentle smoothing
programme.
– Pure linen should only be machine
dried if specified as suitable by the
manufacturer on the care label, as the
surface of the fabric may otherwise
become rough. They can be partially
dried using the
Gentle smoothing
programme.
– Woollens and wool blends tend to
become matted and shrink if dried in
a tumble dryer. They can, however,
be "fluffed up" in the
Woollens hand-
care
programme.
– Loopknit garments (e.g. T-shirts and
underwear) tend to shrink depending
on their quality. Do not over-dry these
textiles. When purchasing these gar-
ments it is advisable to take their
shrinkage properties into account.
– Select the
Gentle tumble
option for
fabric which is particularly heat-sens-
itive or susceptible to creasing.
