Keep Your Handloom Sarees As Good As New

How To Keep Your Handloom Sarees As Good As New

The tag will always say specifically ‘Dry Clean Only’.

Now you don’t want anything to happen to your saree, not one bit. Not to its colour, to its fabric and nothing at all. Okay it’s handloom I got it.

And now the predicament. How best to look after your handloom saree that it looks as good as new each time?

Handloom sarees especially the heirloom-quality, Paithini, Kanjeevaram, Patola, Chanderi, Pat Silk, Kalamkari or the alluring Banarasi, need to be taken care of with utmost love and tenderness.

One of the worst nightmares, let’s suppose I know it’s hard but lets just suppose you attend a wedding and few drops of curry ruins your saree.

Oh no! What to do now?

Apply water? That will definitely get the stain a little mild but in the long run will it wash away. Your mood is off for the night, you can’t concentrate on the wedding anymore.

Of course we all know, the easiest way to undo the damage is to send it promptly to the dry cleaner. But would your mother have done the same thing? What is life without the luxury of a dry cleaner? And you certainly remember how their sarees remained new as always for years

Let Us Help You With That:

Home Remedies to Keep your Handloom Sarees Intact

If you haven’t seen dry cleaning yourself let me tell you that dry cleaning is a horrifying thing to do with your clothes.

How to wash a handloom saree?

Yes, yes we are telling you to wash your handloom saree! Don’t worry you will make your mother proud. Just follow these steps 

  • Soak the handwoven saree in saltwater for a while. Read again. Just for a little while. Do not just do it and forget about it your saree will lose its colour.
  • Rinse it a couple of times in cold water. Good cold water.
  • Use a mild detergent to hand wash the handmade saree. Stay away from an advertisement for promising products.
  • Remember the shampoo rule ‘More important than applying it to the hair, is to ensure you remove it properly.’ Remember this thoroughly.
  • Also, the soap needs to be washed off almost immediately
  • Use only cold water.‘Wash the Saree, with all your focus, with giving attention to each part separately’

 

Do not

  • Use a brush, Never.
  • Bundle it up like a towel. It’s a sin.
  • Wash the handwoven sarees in a washing machine.

An ugly stain, you just know it when you see it?

I’ll shout, run, just take this immediate action, don’t wait to get to your home and start this process.

How To Remove Stains From A Handloom Saree

  • If it is a cold drink or a curry stain rush to the parking area, dip your handkerchief into the petrol box and wipe off the stain! petrol acts like magic.
  • If petrol is not in hand which won’t be there most of the time then for food stains, the good old talcum powder comes to the rescue. Let the powder soak the oil and then simply wash it off gently.

How to Dry a Handloom Saree After Wash

You get into this only if you have been endowed with qualities like patience. This takes time.

  • Always dry your precious handloom sarees in partial shade, avoid full exposure to the sun 
  • Do not wring the saree, just don’t you will destroy your own saree.
  • Unlike what we have been doing for years, we need to dry the sarees on a flat surface.
  • Wash separately, do not wash two sarees together.

Ironing A Handloom Saree

  • Always press your sarees keeping the iron in medium to low heat.
  • Never spray water on it before ironing as it may leave permanent marks on the fabric.

 

We hope we have been of some good help to you. Trust us, we are equally pleased to share such good techniques with you.