{"id":3650,"date":"2012-08-12T20:20:37","date_gmt":"2012-08-13T00:20:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ellesilk.com\/blog\/?p=3650"},"modified":"2023-05-09T03:11:17","modified_gmt":"2023-05-09T07:11:17","slug":"care-tips-for-silk-sheets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ellesilk.com\/blog\/care-tips-for-silk-sheets\/","title":{"rendered":"Care Tips for Silk Sheets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Delicate silk fabrics have their own requirements for cleaning which is different from others. Here are professional approaches for caring <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ellesilk.com\/silk-bed-linen.html\">silk sheets<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>Wash silk sheets by hand the first few times after purchase and use. This protects the silk&#8217;s sheen and softens the fibers. Use only lukewarm water and a gentle, biodegradable detergent or a detergent specially formulated for silk. Resist the urge to rub the fabric vigorously, and don&#8217;t let silk sheets soak too long. When removing the excess water from your sheets, don&#8217;t wring them with your bare hands. Wrap the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ellesilk.com\/silk-bed-linen.html\">silk sheet<\/a> in a large towel and gently twist. Move up to a washing machine silk sheets after your first few hand washings. Always use the delicate wash cycle and tepid water no warmer than 86 degrees Fahrenheit.<\/p>\n<p>It is usually possible to clean&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ellesilk.com\/silk-bed-linen\/mulberry-silk-sheet-sets.html\">silk sheet set<\/a> without damaging if you follow the simple guidelines above.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Delicate silk fabrics have their own requirements for cleaning which is different from others. Here are professional approaches for caring silk sheets:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7389,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-silk-care","latest_post"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ellesilk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ellesilk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ellesilk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ellesilk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ellesilk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3650"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.ellesilk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11651,"href":"https:\/\/www.ellesilk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3650\/revisions\/11651"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ellesilk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ellesilk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ellesilk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ellesilk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}