{"id":4717,"date":"2013-06-24T04:46:58","date_gmt":"2013-06-24T08:46:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ellesilk.com\/blog\/?p=4717"},"modified":"2025-10-22T22:36:05","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T02:36:05","slug":"tips-and-warnings-for-silk-blankets-cleaning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ellesilk.com\/blog\/tips-and-warnings-for-silk-blankets-cleaning\/","title":{"rendered":"Tips and Warnings for Silk Blankets Cleaning"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Like other <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ellesilk.com\/\">silk bedding<\/a>, there are some cases you should pay more attention when you are washing silk blankets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hand-washing should be reserved for smaller blankets that are easier to work with when washing and rinsing. Larger <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ellesilk.com\/silk-bedding.html\">silk blankets<\/a> can be difficult to rinse and rid of water. If it is small enough, you can roll it up inside of a large towel to aid in extracting the water. After washing, you can lay the blanket flat on a drying rack or hang it in a place out of the direct sunlight. A plastic drying rack is acceptable or any other clean object, but do not use a wooden drying rack as the finish on the wood might stain the blanket.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, before all the things you do, check the care instructions that came with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ellesilk.com\/silk-bedding\/silk-blankets.html\">silk blanket<\/a> and do as what it says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like other silk bedding, there are some cases you should pay more attention when you are washing silk blankets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23690,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-silk-care","category-silk-guides","latest_post"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ellesilk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4717","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=4717"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ellesilk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23691,"href":"https:\/\/www.ellesilk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4717\/revisions\/23691"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ellesilk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ellesilk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ellesilk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ellesilk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}