How to wash curtains with eyelets in the washing machine

Curtains with eyelets are a fashionable and beautiful window decoration, which is an important attribute of a stylishly decorated room. Curtains are not only a decoration, but also a completely functional element that protects your room from prying eyes and scorching sun rays. However, it must be remembered that curtains with eyelets are a real dust collector and must be washed periodically. Read about how to do this in our article.

Getting ready to do the laundry

When figuring out how to wash curtains with eyelets, you need to decide how to prepare these curtains for washing, because this is also very important. One of the main questions of housewives is: will metal eyelets rust after washing? In fact, modern eyelets are made of coated metal or even stainless alloys, so there is no need to worry about them. Well, if the question is fundamental, then try pulling out the eyelets. In most cases, they come off just fine.

To more efficiently remove eyelets from curtains without breaking or tearing anything, use the help of your spouse.

Before preparing the curtains for washing, they must be removed from the curtain rod. Curtains with eyelets are removed in one moment, unlike any others. We remove the plug that is installed on the edge of the cornice and pull the curtains over this edge. That's all. Next, we remove the eyelets themselves, but we still adhere to the point of view that this is not necessary. We carefully roll up the curtains and put them aside for now.

Now we need to prepare a suitable detergent; there is no need to think about washing curtains with eyelets with regular washing powder. It is best to take a gel or shampoo for washing, since liquid products are better washed out of the fabric, do not leave traces, and are generally more gentle. Of course, liquid products are not so economical to use, and they are quite expensive, but for such an occasion you can go broke. You also need to buy a special mesh for washing, since it is simply impossible to wash curtains with eyelets otherwise.

And finally, the most important thing. To complete the preparation for washing curtains with eyelets, you need to find out what characteristics the fabric from which these curtains are made has. Perhaps they can only be washed with extreme care or should not be washed at all? But we will talk about this in the next paragraph.

Hand or machine wash?

How will we wash our curtains, in a washing machine or by hand? Everything will depend on what fabric they are made from. Velvet and silk curtains with eyelets, as well as curtains made of brocade and moiré, cannot be washed categorically; their cleaning must be entrusted to specialists. Of course, these fabrics are impractical, but velvet or silk curtains look just great. Now about curtains made from other fabrics.

• Curtains with flock grommets are also not washable; they can only be wiped and vacuumed.
• Organza curtains can be washed, but they must first be soaked in cold water and then washed in a washing machine at a temperature not exceeding 30 degrees.
• Cotton and synthetic curtains with eyelets can be washed both by hand and in a washing machine with almost no restrictions, but there is no need to set the temperature too high: 60 degrees and spin at 800 rpm are optimal.
• Curtains made from Blackout fabric should be washed in a washing machine, with the spin switch turned off.Firstly, spinning will cause a large number of wrinkles to appear, and secondly, this is not necessary, because such fabric dries very quickly.
• Finished linen curtains with eyelets are best washed by hand, but machine washing is also acceptable. Just keep in mind that the water temperature should not be higher than 40 degrees, spin without restrictions.
• Dyed linen curtains can be washed at 60 degrees, but it is also preferable to do it by hand.
• Curtains made of acrylic and viscose can be machine washed at 40 degrees on a delicate cycle.

If you have chintz curtains with eyelets, then remember that it is better to wash them by hand in slightly salted water with the addition of vinegar. This solution will make the pattern on the curtains brighter and more saturated.

Description of washing

So, how to wash curtains? We put the curtains with eyelets in a special washing net and stuff them into the washing machine. Make sure that the drum of your “home assistant” is spacious enough. Washing machines with a load of 3, 3.5 and even 4 kg will not work. It is better that the load starts from 5.5 kg and above. Next we do the following.

1. Pour the gel into the powder tray according to the instructions for the product.
2. Choose washing modes and programs, based on the characteristics of the curtain fabric that we discussed above.
3. We set the double rinse, but again decide whether or not to set the spin cycle based on the characteristics of the fabric from which the curtains are made.
4. When the program ends, the curtains need to be dried.

How to dry such curtains?

There are two ways to dry curtains: you can hang them immediately, but then they can stretch, or first dry them on a horizontal surface until damp, and then hang them on the curtain.Before laying the curtains on a horizontal surface, for example, on a folding drying rack, it must be covered with terry towels. They will quickly absorb excess moisture and the curtains will dry faster.

Remember! You cannot dry curtains with eyelets close to heat sources such as a radiator, heater, fireplace, etc., as the fabric may shrink.

So, how to wash curtains with such a wonderful decoration as eyelets? Everything is very simple if you know exactly the characteristics of the fabric from which they are sewn. If you have any doubts, contact the specialist who sewed these curtains for you; he will probably know well how to care for them. The main thing is not to do anything adventurous and everything will be fine!

   

1 reader comment

1. 06/19/2022 at 16:38

   Daria:

   This is genius! 🙂 Very funny, I’m lying under the table.

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