Fine Linen Care:
Fine linens deserve the best care possible. Follow our suggestions below to maintain your linens for a lifetime and more!

Important: Certain skin and hair products that contain oxidizing agents (e.g., lotions used for acne) may cause discoloration of sheets, particularly blue linens. If you use such personal products, cover your pillow with a white pillow case or white towel.

Shrinkage
Shrinkage will occur with all linens made of natural fibers, the amount of shrinkage ranging from 4 to 10 percent, depending on the fibers used. The sizing of our products allows for expected shrinkage. Linens washed in hot water or dried at hot temperatures will shrink excessively. Pre-shrunk items, such as Jacquard-woven table linens or honeycomb towels, normally shrink 3 percent or less. Generally, very large pieces of fabric or very high thread count linens are not pre-shrunk.

Washing Your Fine Bedding Linens

Linens should be separated into light or dark colors. Avoid overloading the machine to prevent breaking long fibers like those in Egyptian cotton. Whether cotton, pure linen, or a cotton/linen blend, bedding should be washed in warm water, using a gentle laundering agent, with a final cold rinse. If pre-soaking is necessary, it should be in cold water.

Allow your washing machine to fill up and begin agitating before you add detergent or bleach. Unless your linens are extremely soiled, use half the commercial detergent recommended; this will reduce damage to fibers and clean your linens just as well.

Remove washed bedding promptly from the machine; this helps reduce wrinkling. Shaking damp linens out before drying (at low heat) will also reduce wrinkles and quicken the drying time.

Washing Bath Linens

Terry Towels: Washing terry towels before use begins the "breaking in" process, making them softer and more absorbent. Several washings are required for 100% cotton terry towels to achieve their maximum absorbency, softness and fluff. Our MicroCotton™ towels and bath mats get much softer with every wash!

Honeycomb Towels: These lightweight, waffle weave towels are loosely woven for absorbency, dry very quickly, and have been pre-shrunk. White honeycomb items with colored borders may be bleached safely to keep their brightness.

Launder towels in warm water and a gentle detergent. It is particularly important with towels that you not use fabric softener, since it decreases the absorbency of the towel.

Washing Table Linens

Our Jacquard-woven table linens are carefree: they’re pre-shrunk, with an easy-care finish, and can be bleached without affecting the brightness of the color. Dry cleaning is not recommended; laundering "relaxes" the fibers, which actually enhances the intricate, Jacquard-woven patterns.

Table linens should be washed in warm water and gentle detergent, with a final cold rinse.

Bleach may be used, which brightens the linens.

Fabric softeners are not recommended, since they decrease absorbency and impart a fragrance that can be disconcerting.

Remove table linens promptly from the wash, and shake out to help minimize wrinkles before drying.

Important: Beautiful as they are, tea towels are meant to be used hard—in the kitchen, they are great for drying dishes and crystal, but they are also ideal for wiping up spills. Bleach can be used to maintain their elegant appearance.

Universal Laundering Symbols

These are the symbols you will find on the sewn-in labels of each item. Please refer to the label before laundering.

The 2 indicates a normal wash cycle; the 60 means the item should be washed at 60 degrees C, or 140 degrees F.

The 6 indicates a gentle cycle at 40 degrees C or 104 degrees F.
The triangle with X means no chlorine bleach.

Without the X, bleach may be used.

The iron indicates that item may be pressed.Three dots indicates a very hot iron—210 degrees C, 410 degrees F. Two dots indicates a hot iron—160 degrees C, 320 degrees F. One dot indicates a warm iron for touch ups—120 degrees C, 248 F.

The encircled P means all dry cleaning solvents may be used.

Indicates article may be line dried.