<p class="MsoBodyText"><span lang="EN-GB">This document establishes a system of graphic symbols, intended for use in the marking of textile articles, and for providing information on the most severe treatments that do not cause irreversible damage to the article during the textile care process, and specifies the use of these symbols in care labelling.</span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><span lang="EN-GB">This document is applicable to all textile articles, except:</span></p>
<p class="ListContinue1" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><!-- [if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">—<span style="font: 7.0pt 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-GB">non-removable covers of upholstered furniture;</span></p>
<p class="ListContinue1" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><!-- [if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">—<span style="font: 7.0pt 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-GB">non-removable covers of mattresses;</span></p>
<p class="ListContinue1" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><!-- [if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">—<span style="font: 7.0pt 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-GB">carpets and rugs which require professional carpet cleaning.</span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><span lang="EN-GB">These products are excluded due to specific cleaning processes not specified in this document.</span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><span lang="EN-GB">The graphical symbols described in this document are intended to give care information to the end user.</span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><span lang="EN-GB">The following domestic treatments are covered: washing, bleaching, drying and ironing. Professional textile care treatments in dry and wet cleaning, but excluding industrial laundering and professional carpet cleaning, are also covered. However, it is recognized that information imparted by the domestic symbols will also be of assistance to the professional cleaner and launderer.</span></p>
<p class="Note"><span lang="EN-GB">NOTE<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Symbols for industrial laundering can be found in ISO 30023.</span></p>
Registration number (WIID)
74401
Scope
<p class="MsoBodyText"><span lang="EN-GB">This document establishes a system of graphic symbols, intended for use in the marking of textile articles, and for providing information on the most severe treatments that do not cause irreversible damage to the article during the textile care process, and specifies the use of these symbols in care labelling.</span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><span lang="EN-GB">This document is applicable to all textile articles, except:</span></p>
<p class="ListContinue1" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><!-- [if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">—<span style="font: 7.0pt 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-GB">non-removable covers of upholstered furniture;</span></p>
<p class="ListContinue1" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><!-- [if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">—<span style="font: 7.0pt 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-GB">non-removable covers of mattresses;</span></p>
<p class="ListContinue1" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><!-- [if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">—<span style="font: 7.0pt 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-GB">carpets and rugs which require professional carpet cleaning.</span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><span lang="EN-GB">These products are excluded due to specific cleaning processes not specified in this document.</span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><span lang="EN-GB">The graphical symbols described in this document are intended to give care information to the end user.</span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><span lang="EN-GB">The following domestic treatments are covered: washing, bleaching, drying and ironing. Professional textile care treatments in dry and wet cleaning, but excluding industrial laundering and professional carpet cleaning, are also covered. However, it is recognized that information imparted by the domestic symbols will also be of assistance to the professional cleaner and launderer.</span></p>
<p class="Note"><span lang="EN-GB">NOTE<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Symbols for industrial laundering can be found in ISO 30023.</span></p>
