Most hotel drapery isn’t handled often enough to merit cleaning on a regular basis like bedding, which is laundered nearly every day. It is quite possible to keep your drapery looking clean and fresh with simple light vacuuming and brushing. But, with renewed safeguards against illnesses since the pandemic, the measures to take should be far more rigorous. That being said, the need for cleaning drapery more often is raised, and it’s important to know what exactly you should and shouldn't do.
The most important instruction is to always reference the fabric manufacturers’ care instructions. You should always make sure that certain extra precautions or instructions are followed for face fabrics and linings alike.
It is most often recommended that when drapery is getting cleaned, it should be handled by a professional dry cleaner (and not in the same way that a hotel may wash normal bedding and toiletry items). These are the points that you will want to assure yourself of, before turning your draperies over for dry cleaning:
Make sure all drapery hooks or pins are removed.
Make sure that the drapery is measured prior to washing & drying and supplied to the cleaner in case of shrinkage.
Do not exceed 120 degrees Fahrenheit when drying
Hang drapery immediately and have wrinkles fall out and to keep blackout from sticking together.
If ironing is necessary, make sure the iron is set for polyester or synthetic and do not exceed 350 degrees Fahrenheit.
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