Knitwear can be said to be one of the necessary items in the closet of the trendsetters, especially in the autumn and winter season knitwear appearances simply do not too much, hit the bottom, take the sweater, take the shirt, only you can not think of no she can not take. But many people have encountered the problem of knitting shrinkage, the following I will look at the knitted sweater shrinkage serious to how to restore it together with you.
Knitwear shrinkage is a quality problem
The reason why knitwear will shrink is mostly due to its fabric, so in general it should not be considered a quality problem. If you don’t like clothes that shrink, it is advisable to buy these fabrics with small water absorption, such as polyester, nylon and these chemical synthetic fibers, which have small water absorption, and generally speaking, the shrinkage is smaller.
How to recover knitwear shrinkage serious
The knitwear that can shrink are usually pure natural wool products or those that contain high natural animal hair content. The actual fact is that it is very easy to deal with, using a clothing care agent, or special wool sweater care agent soak on it, if not, you can also use hair conditioner, anyway, the chemical composition is protein, essentially, hair and wool is no different.
What happened to the knitwear shrinkage?
Knitwear is generally less likely to shrink, and after washing it will generally shrink back to its initial clothing size. If the size becomes smaller after washing, then this knitwear may be a natural fiber knitted fabric, which can also be called a sweater. Because animal hairs such as wool and human hair are scaly, they will tangle with each other after washing and rubbing. Such shrinkage is called felt shrinkage and are irreversible. Many methods that claim to be able to recover are obtained at the expense of destroying the fiber structure, and the fastness and cosmetic effect of the clothes will be affected to some extent.
