I've used cotton gloves for many years long before I became an archivist and they are quite easily washable - in the machine, with the whites, at up to 60 degrees (you can probably try 95 but it's not necessary), any detergent you normally use for whites. I've also washed our gloves in the archives several times - they still look very good (and perfectly white).
Juliane
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Betreff: Re: Washing cotton gloves
Best thing to do would be to ditch them and get nitrile gloves (check the web
for cheapest supllier), cotton gloves are not much use. If you wish to keep
and wash them, use a bland soap, non-bio, rinse well in clean water (no
softener) and hang to dry. You could try pulling them into shape before hanging
out to dry. Don't have the water too hot. They don't need to be ultra white,
they just need to be clean.
Pam
Quoting Katie Cassell <[log in to unmask]>:
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> Apologies for cross posting
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> A bit of a Friday question here- we've got a number of extremely dirty cotton
> gloves which we use for handling objects and the like, and I'm hoping to take
> them home to wash them. The problem is there's no washing instructions- so I
> was wondering if anyone knows the right temperature to wash the gloves at
> without shrinking them!
>
> Any help gratefully received.
>
> Many thanks
>
> Katie Giles
>
> Archivist
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> Kingston University
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