Caring for Your Luxury Linens

Your Guide to Lasting Elegance:

To ensure the enduring beauty of your Kearsley linens, we offer comprehensive care instructions in both English and Spanish. Access these guidelines through our convenient PDFs to maintain their luxurious qualities.

Choosing the Right Cleaner:

The secret to preserving your linens lies in selecting high-quality cleaning services. Opt for cleaners that use clean water and neutral detergents, ensuring your linens are treated with the utmost care.

Recommended Cleaners:

  • In the San Francisco Bay area, we recommend Alex’s Dry Cleaning Valet.
  • For Southern California residents, Margaret’s Couture Cleaner is our top choice.

Hard Water Precautions:

If your home has hard or unfiltered well water, consider professional laundering. Providing your cleaner with our specific care instructions will protect your linens from premature wear.

Pressing for Perfection:

Press linens while damp to enhance their lifespan, avoiding starch to prevent fiber damage. Ironing smooths fibers, reducing friction and extending fabric life. Remember, linens last longer when cared for with attention to detail.

Extra Care Tips:

  • Facial stubble can accelerate wear on pillowcases. Having extra pillowcases on hand can help maintain the set’s pristine condition.
  • Note: Fine cotton may pill in reaction to down and feathers, a sign of an allergic response.

Preserving Your Linens’ Luxurious Feel

Our guidance is crafted to empower you to care for your linens effectively, ensuring they remain a testament to luxury in your home. With these tips, your Kearsley linens will continue to offer unparalleled comfort and elegance.

Our guidance is crafted to empower you to care for your linens effectively, ensuring they

Care Instructions for Kearsley Linens

Sheets

Please wash them with cool water and a gentle detergent that has no perfumes, dyes, alkali, bleaches or optical brighteners as any of these additives can shorten the life of the fabric or affect the color or embroidery. Do not use softeners. We recommend hanging the sheets to dry as a dryer could cause shrinkage. Ironing while still a bit damp returns the sheeting to its luxurious smoothness and prolongs its life. Alternatively, you can spread sheets on a bed and smooth them with your hands. Professional laundering is also a good choice if there are no harsh chemicals used by the establishment.

Terry

Please wash terry two or three times before use. Wash the towels and robes with cool water and a gentle detergent that has no perfumes, dyes, alkali, bleaches or optical brighteners as any of them can shorten the life of the fabric or affect the color or embroidery. Be sure that there are no open zippers or Velcro items in the same load of laundry. Do not use softeners. Tumble until completely dry. In this process the terry will compact a bit and will no longer snag. Snagging is common before washing and if this should occur just snip off the offending threads.

Cotton Matelassé Bed Covers & Shams

Please wash with cool water and a gentle detergent that contains no perfumes, dyes, alkali, bleaches or optical brighteners as any of these can shorten the life of the fabric or affect the color or embroidery. Do not use softeners. Please hang to dry. Do NOT use the dryer as the item (bed cover or shams) will shrink. Kearsley will pre-wash items if you plan to wash and dry them. They iron back out to looking new, but have a great textural puckered look when they are not ironed. Professional dry cleaning is also a good choice if there are no harsh chemicals used.

Table Linen

Please wash with cool water and a gentle detergent with no perfumes, dyes, alkali, bleaches or optical brighteners as any of them can shorten the life of the fabric or effect the color or embroidery. Do not use softeners. No starch is required, but may be used. The best way to dry linens is by hanging on a line or rod.  If you use a dryer, use the gentlest heat and remove the linens before they are completely dry. Pressing is necessary to return the linens to their crisp and fresh appearance. For this wonderful linen, professional laundering is an excellent choice if there are no harsh chemicals used.