Mommie and Caress are two of the most used fabric for table linen and napkins. Each fabric type has their own advantages compared to the other. Depending on your setup, you might wish to try one over the other.

Here are some benefits on each of them.

Mommie

• 100% Cotton
• Easy to starch and presentable for decorative use
• Naturally water absorbent
• Traditional fabric with natural feel
• Looks best when commercially ironed

Caress

• Part or fully polyester
• Does not crease easily and flawless presentation
• Resistant to chemical damages
• Colour that never fades or dull
• No linting and shedding
• High quality caress absorbs moisture well

All of the table linen should come in custom sizes. So, ask your laundry provider about them.

Or check our product page to see some of the common sizes available from our laundry services.

Care labels are found on clothing and textiles. They are there to inform the public how to care for the products.

In Australia, these care labels should be permanently attached to the clothing or textile, written in English and appropriate for them.

There are so many signs and symbols following the clothing or textile that it might be confusing at times.

Here are simple ways for you to understand the common symbols.

Washing

A bucket with water means the garment should be washed. Variations as per below. Synthetics wash are sometimes known as permanent press textile.

Bleaching

Triangle symbols represents bleaching, use only on white textiles when necessary to reduce damage.

Drying

Circle in a box represents tumble dry. Without the circle, it represents air or natural drying.

Ironing

The iron symbol represents ironing and instructions on temperatures and if it’s safe to iron.

Dry Cleaning

Circle with words in them represents dry cleaning. The words are for professional use so your dry cleaners will understand which solvent to use.

That covers the basics on understanding care labels. For more information, check out our label resource website below or chat with us on Facebook.

Resource:

https://www.persil.co.uk/laundry-tips/wash-care-symbols/

https://www.drycleanersweb.com.au/care-labelling

With summer just around the corner, we bring up the topic of the dreaded mould and mildew which might be a problems around the coastal towns of Geelong and the Bellarine Peninsula.

Moulds and mildews are fungi that can grow on food scraps and linen in stuffy, dark and in high humidity conditions (temperature of 20-30ºC, humidity of 70% or greater). Being fungi, they can spread through spores from one area to other nearby areas.

These fungi can appear in different colours starting from pink and eventually turns green, brown and black. The word mould and mildew are generally used interchangeably to describe the process of the linen becoming mildewed. You can smell a musty odour on the linen in the presence of mould and mildew even before you see the growth and colour changes.

Once the linen or textiles are affected with mould and mildew, they will start to eat the material they are on, decaying it bit by bit.  It is very difficult to remove. There are methods that uses harsh chemicals to remove them but the results are not always good and the damages to the linen material are always very severe, shortening its lifespan, causing discolouration and lowering the linen quality significantly.

There are known health problems associated to mould and mildew. Exposure to them can cause respiratory problems, allergic reactions, heachaches, joint paint and fatigues to name a few.

Even though our linen is treated to be resistant to mould and mildew, the fungi can still grow when exposed in the right conditions for a prolonged period of time. We have customers who come up with several measures to control their growth, giving enough time until we collect and process them in our laundry plant. Here are 3 simple methods:

1. Storing soiled linen in cooler room to keep them cold and dry
2. Leave the soiled linen out in the sun to dry and air them
3. Clear food scraps away from soiled linen as much as possible before putting them in bags

What would you do to prevent mould and mildew from growing on your linen and textile? Visit us on our Facebook Page to post your opinion.

Laundry Company Profile (Processing plant): Company Profile – South Pacific Laundry

Here is a video to show how to fasten a trolley full of linen.

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