It is true that silk sheets are expensive and are an investment, caring for them shouldn’t scare you or stop you from purchasing them.
When you first purchase pure silk sheets, wash them by hand for the first few items of washing. Doing this helps to preserve the sheen of the silk and soften the silk fibers. After hand washing for the first few times you can switch to machine washing if you want to, but always wash the sheets on your machine’s delicate cycle After hand washing for the first few times, you can switch to machine washing the sheets, but always wash them on the delicate cycle and never use hot water. Experts recommend washing silk sheets at 30 degrees Centigrade (86 degrees Fahrenheit) which is water that is barely lukewarm.
Let the 100% mulberry silk sheets hand dry, if possible, but keep them out of direct sunlight and away from heating vents because that is just like putting them in a hot dryer. It is especially important to keep dark-colored silk sheets out of the sunlight because they will visibly fade them in a very short amount of time.