care and feeding of silk?

[thanate]

Question for those of you who work with dupioni-- do you treat it as dry clean only, or has it held up to washing? I am wondering if I should fight my habit of serging and machine washing/drying everything that comes into the house (ok, there are some other exceptions) for fear of ruining the lovely stuff, rather than washing it now for fear of it shrinking later on due to potential hand washing.

Opinions?

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I had some interesteing effects from accedentally washing dupioni. I don't recomend washing it becuase it really changes teh fabric allot. (or at least it did for me) I liked the final look, it really brought out the weave.

[greta-k.livejournal.com]

I've washed dupioni, too, and not had too many problems. Then again, I've only used it for smallish projects. I've had good luck with washing raw silk. Very sturdy, but I'd still do it on delicate/gentle.