First of all, you need to make sure that the velvet curtains you buy are not too thick. This will make it so much easier to clean them. If your curtains are thin enough, you shouldn’t have difficulty getting them off the curtains or getting the detergent to reach deep stains in the weave. It will also be much easier to restore the body of the fabric if it is not too thick and you don’t have to deal with so many fibers in the tuft.
Additionally, thick curtains could end up collecting a lot of dust and spores that would make it necessary for you to send the curtain over to the dry cleaners. Sometimes the use of dry cleaning chemicals will damage the fabric depending on what the velvet curtain is made of.
The first type of cleaning you have to do with velvet curtains is maintenance cleaning. You should expect your velvet drapes to trap a lot of dust owing to the fact that it has so many fibers. And it is not just dust that you should watch out for. During certain seasons of the year, specifically autumn (which would be an ideal season to use warm velvet curtains), microscopic pollutants like spores can get trapped in your velvet curtains. These invisible particles can cause all kinds of allergic reactions in people.
- Remove the curtains from their rods.
- Setting the vacuum cleaner at the lowest intensity, make several passes in one area of the curtain along the grain of the nap or the direction in which the fibers of the cloth go.
- Repeat the same for the other areas until you have processed the whole curtain.
The fact that you need to vacuum velvet cleaners is sufficient proof that it is doing a marvelous job in protecting your room against dust and pollutants. Regular curtains may allow more sunlight but that means they are also allowing nasty particles from outside to enter the room. And the fact that most of the dust will be clinging to your velvet curtains means that there will be less dust on your furniture. In fact those are two very good reasons for buying velvet curtains.
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