Sweater of wool yarn is easy to shrink if not carefully washed. How to deal with your shrinking wool sweater? Here is some tips.
1. Steam ironing
Steam iron your shrinking wool sweater and stretch the fiber with hands while it is hot. Because the ironing area is limited, you can iron wool sweater in several times to ensure stretch evenness. Do not stretch too much in one time. You should know the total stretch length and the stretch length of each time. You can measure the length after stretch and make adjustment. Do not overstretch.
You should iron on ironing table. If it is at home you can spread a piece of tag on table. After the ironing you’d better reform it on form finisher.
2. Thick paperboard
A thick paperboard can also help stretch your shrinking wool yarn sweater. You can cut the paperboard by the size and form of your wool sweater. You’d better polish the edges with abrasive paper to avoid destroy the wool thread. Put the paperboard into wool yarn sweater and steam iron wool sweater in all parts. Put off the paperboard after the wool yarn sweater cool down.
3. Dry cleaner
You can also send your wool sweater to the dry cleaner. Dry wash it and then hang it in special hanger. Stream iron wool sweater in heat and then wool sweater can return to its original form. The price is same as that of dry washing.
Tips: pay attention to the sewn-in label, careful wash is important to sweater of wool yarn.