AS for caring for Stillwater's:

1). You only need to hand wash or gentle wash them with cool water. The fabric does not require anything more than that.

2). You CAN machine dry them, but know that you'll be damaging the fabric. Your best bet is to line-dry them, or lay them out.

3). IF you need to iron them, you may want to use the steam setting with a little starch. After ironing BOTH sides, you can go over the outside ones with a cool iron.

4). I've washed mine countless times and have no pilling, no pleat problems, and no shrinkage.

A little care goes a LONG way with them.;)