ABSTRACT
Care labels provide information on the temperature settings to be used for ironing. The Federal Trade Commission in the United States promulgated a trade rule on care labelling of wearing textiles and certain piece goods in 1972. The rule requires that apparel items should have a permanent care label that provides information about their regular care instructions. The International Organization for Standardization is currently preparing a system of care labelling with special symbols for the industrial cleaning of work wear. This system of graphical symbols is intended for the care labelling of work wear articles and protective clothing. Bleaching helps to remove stains on white clothes and retain their brightness. It can remove the colour when used on coloured clothes. Dry cleaning is the process of cleaning textile articles by means of organic solvents. This process consists of cleaning, rinsing, spinning and drying.
