5 Tips You Should Know about Zipper Care

As a common fastener, zipper can be founded here and there in our daily life. Small as it is, zipper is not simple. It is possible for you to run into troubles if you don’t pay attention to caring for zipper correctly. Here are 5 tips you should grasp to keep your zippers clean and working smoothly.

1. Color Transfer

Some special material layers applied to the zipper surface or the dark colors of zipper may stain light fabrics in certain cases. For instance, color transfer may happen when polyester tape dyeing with disperse dyes directly contacts with the adhesive or oil of synthetic leather or PVC tape.

Tips

Put a piece of paper between zippers and fabrics to avoid color transfer resulting from temperature, pressure, humidity or long-time contact.

2. Oxidation

Metal zippers made of copper will be blackened due to oxidation when applied to woolen cloth. Residual chemical substance and bleaching agent after manufacturing leather or wool products are able to release gas which is reactive to metal zipper, resulting in the color change of zippers. In addition, there is vulcanization if metal zippers are bound by rubber band containing sulfide.

Tips

In consideration of metal’s oxidation, although electroplated zipper sliders have been taken rustproof treatment, please wrap them with special paper to reduce discoloration and scratch.

3. Washing

Zip zipper and fix the slider before washing cloth, otherwise, the slider may scratch fabrics and the tape will shrink.

Pay attention to that strong detergents and chlorine-containing bleach will dissolve the paraffin wax and oily film on the zipper surface. If zipper is difficult to close and open after washing, smear soap or other lubricate substances on teeth and then zip zipper for a few times.

Painted sliders should be wrapped with cloth before washing to prevent paint layer from peeling off.

4. Ironing

Ironing temperature should be changed properly depending on cloth material, which is also applicable to ironing zippers. Ironing zippers under correct heat can keep them normal and beautiful.

Before ironing, close zippers, fix pullers in a proper position and put them on a horizontal place, and then cover zippers with a piece of cloth. Don’t contact zippers directly when ironing.

5. Stuck Zipper

When closing and opening zippers, sometimes a slider will get stuck on fabrics. Under this circumstance, trying to move it by stronger force will make it worse. What you should do is to remove the stuck pieces of fabrics and pull the slider back with little force. Also note the smoothness of the zipper when sewing.

Make sure that zippers are fully open when you putting on or taking off clothing and It’s better to button or hook your pants before zipping zippers

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