How To Care For Batik

Batik is a trend. However, it's either not many people know how to care for the color of batik clothes to last. Here are some alternative ways of treating pet batik.

1. When washing, use detergent specifically for batik fabrics are sold in the market.

2. Or, wash hair with shampoo batik cloth. Previously, dissolve shampoo in water until no part of jelling. Then, dip the cloth of batik.

3. Wash batik can also use lerak fruit or leaves of plants that have been glued muted warm water. The trick, knead lerak fruit or leaves glued to remove the foam, then add enough water, and ready to wash the batik. Fruit flavors lerak able to prevent the emergence of small animals that can damage the fabric.

4. When you wash your batik, do not use detergent and do not rub. If batik not too dirty, simply soak in warm water. But if it is really dirty, such as food stains, can be removed with soap or orange peel. Way, simply by rubbing soap or orange peel on the dirty part.

5. Instead, do not wash your batik with a washing machine.

6. We will leave them, batik is wet do not have to be squeezed. And do not leave them in direct sunlight. Drying in the shade or aerated to dry.

7. When drying, drag the edge batik slowly so that the fiber is folded back into position.

8. If it is dried in the sun, avoid ironing batik directly. If you look very good batik, spray a little water on a piece of batik cloth, and put a cloth over it, a new iron.

9. If you want to give perfumes or fabric softeners on batik, do not spray directly on fabric. Instead, cover the first batik with newspaper, then spray the deodorant and fabric softener had been in the newspaper.

10. Do not spray perfume or fragrance oils directly onto cloth batik, especially batik silk with natural dyes.

11. Save your favorite batik in plastic so as not to be eaten by moth. When stored in a closet should not be camphor, because the solid is very loud and can damage the batik.

12. Another way that batik was moth-eaten, give a little pepper wrapped in paper towels in the cabinet with the batik. Or, put fragrant roots which had twice through the process of immersion in hot water and dried in the sun to dry.