Hopefully the weather will be warming up soon, so now is a good time to think about inspecting and cleaning your winter sweaters. You will want to inspect your sweaters for holes or snags. If you find holes try to discern if the damage is from a tear or snag Or from an insect. If [...]
WeddingWire, the nation’s leading wedding technology company, is thrilled to announce National Drycleaners has been selected to receive the prestigious annual WeddingWire Bride’s Choice Awards™ 2011 for wedding gown cleaning and preservation! Recognition for the Bride’s Choice Awards™ 2011 is determined by recent reviews and extensive surveys from over 750,000 WeddingWire newlyweds. Our past clients [...]
National Drycleaners After months of studying and an entire day of testing, I have received my Environmental Certification, (CED), and my Professional Drycleaner Certification,(CPD) from the Drycleaning & Laundry Institute in Laurel, Maryland. These certifications will go along with the Professional Wetcleaning Certification, (CPW) I already have. I started the process about two years ago [...]
Fun with Fabrics!! Tuxedo Shirts Many men are unsure about starching tux shirts. I’m all for it! If you can put up with a little stiffness the starch will keep the shirt from developing that unkempt look. Share this: Facebook
Creases I am certain that you have had slacks returned from the cleaner with a crease where there was none, without a crease when there was one, and occasionally with multiple creases. (I have even seen new slacks with double creases.) Most drycleaners have a difficult time regulating this issue. When a pair of slacks [...]
I thought it might be nice given the weather this morning to share some fun facts about Gore-Tex! What It Is GORE-TEX® fabric is the registered trademark name for fabric produced by W.L. Gore & Associates, Inc., known also as GORE-TEX Laminates. It is composed of a white microporous polytetrafluorethylene membrane (film) known as PTFE, [...]
National Drycleaners is proud to announce our participation with Real Change’s clothing drive for the homeless. Please bring in your donated, coats, blankets, sleeping bags, and comforters. National Drycleaners will clean them and send them off to Real Change to be distributed to people in need. You can drop them at our location on Crown [...]
What you should know about sleeping bags. 28 Jul With the next long weekend just around the corner and my camping plans progressing nicely, I decided it was time to start prepping and getting things ready. I started by trying to find my sleeping bag and my fleece blankets. You never know how cold the [...]
Vintage Gown Restorations: Heirloom Gown Preservation & Vintage Gown Restoration is Our Specialty. If the wedding gown of your dreams is a family bridal gown that time has yellowed and stained, call us! We have members who specialize in restoring antique or vintage bridal gowns to the true color without damage to delicate fabrics or [...]
