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Tips for batik maintenance

There are few things that need your attention to the clothing or batik cloth, you still beautiful, are as follows:

  • When wash it, use special soap for washing the batik cloth sold in the market. Or, batik cloth, wash hair with shampoo. Previously, larutkan shampoo in the water until no part of the set. Then, celupkan batik cloth.
  • Wash batik can also use the fruit or the leaves of plants lerak that have been muted dilem warm water. How, remas-remas fruit lerak or leaves dilem until the yeast and add adequate water, and ready to wash batik. Fruit aroma lerak able to prevent the emergence of small animals that can damage fabrics.
  • When washing batik, do not use detergent and rubbed.  If batik is not too dirty, quite warm in water.  But if really dirty, for example, affected the food stain, can be removed with soap bath or orange peel. How, with enough mengusapkan bath soap or orange in the skin that was dirty.
  • Recommend, Batik do not wash with washing machines.
  • When dry batiks, the wet is not considered necessary. Dry not under the direct sunlight. Dry it in the shade or wind them up to dry.
  • When dry, drag the edge of batik slowly to the fiber terlipat to return to its original position.
    If you have dried, smooth batik avoid directly. If batik appear distraught, spray little water on the batik cloth and place the piece of cloth on top of the base, a new iron.
  • If you want to give parfume or fabric softener on the handmade batik, do not spray directly on the lower garment. Should, cover it with handmade batik newspaper, and spray liquids parfume and fabric softener was in the newspaper.
  • Do not spray perfume directly to the batik cloth, especially silk batik with natural pigments.
    Save your batik in the plastic so that no moth-eaten. When stored in a cupboard not given camphor, because this is very solid and hard can damage the batik.
  • Another way to batik, not moth-eaten, give a little pepper wrapped in tissue storage locker batik. Or, place the root of fragrant already twice through the process of immersion in hot water and dried up to dry.