PANIC - How do I get biro out of silk ???

[wickedstepmother]

I bought a beautiful pale pure silk top to wear on my hen night 5 weeks ago. As part of my hen night I was set challenges, one of which was to get 10 mens phone numbers written on me in biro.

I thought I'd been successful in avoiding pen on the top itself but, alas, no. I have a blue biro line of about 2.5in long on the bottom of it. I want to wear the top again but I can't get the stain out and don't want to be too experimental as I really don't want to ruin the top further. As you may have already guessed the top is hand wash only and so the most I have tried is a gentle soak in Fairy non-bio. My usual life-saver, Vanish Oxy, isn't suitable for use on silk and so I am now stuck ! PLEASE HELP !

Desperate of Worcester

No-one feeling helpful today ???

I'd just try a very long soak in the handwash stuff you usually use, perhaps rubbing that patch gently a couple of times during soaking. Otherwise, claim on your house contents insurance

I'll try the longer soak option. There's no point in claimin on the insurance as we have a £100 excess !

wickedstepmother boil up hot milk in a pan and then soak the area in the milk. You may have to do it a couple of times but it works. I dont know whether it works after you hsave washed it etc but I usually do it in the milk before anything else.

I'll try the longer soak option. There's no point in claiming on the insurance as we have a £100 excess !

I'll try the longer soak option. There's no point in claiming on the insurance as we have a £100 excess !

I'll try the longer soak option. There's no point in claiming on the insurance as we have a £100 excess !

wickedstepmother boil up hot milk in a pan and then soak the area in the milk. You may have to do it a couple of times but it works. I dont know whether it works after you hsave washed it etc but I usually do it in the milk before anything else.

I'll try the longer soak option. There's no point in claimin on the insurance as we have a £100 excess !

Cheers Doormat ! Sorry about the multiple posts, my pc froze

Its ok wsm

DO stain devil not do a biro one - they are normally ok to use on delicate materials - although I do just chuck everything in Oxy and hope for the best.

Hey I think all the pcs froze a few minutes ago, I think it was MN not us!!

I was panicing for a minute

Take it to the dry cleaners!!

It may be too late now you've tried to wash it though.

Hmm, I suspect that you're right Soupie. My dry cleaner always gives me his finest "Will you NEVER learn ?!" look whenever I go in

Hmm, I suspect that you're right Soupie. My dry cleaner always gives me his finest "Will you NEVER learn ?!" look whenever I go in

I used Oxyclean on my wedding dress, and it got the red wine out.

Someone spilt red wine on the back of my wedding dress - V annoyed as I don't know who it was! I only noticed it at the cleaners and it didn't come out

We'd been married for about 15 minutes when my new DH trod on the back of my frock and ripped the train so that I couldn't hook it back up out of the way. I lost count of the number of people who trod on it after that

WSM ... I bought a cream silk top from Monsoon once and got money off because of a bit of red biro that was on the collar (just noticed it as I was buying it). I took it home and used Stain Devil ... the one for 'stains of unknown origin'. It worked a treat!

'stains of unknown origin' Like it!

Excellent Ghosty, I'll be trawling my local Tesco for said Devil tomorrow

I have just got gloss paint on my jeans, can I get it out and how???

no u cant. just buy new ones

yes, mieow - take them into the garden (so you don't asphyxiate yourself) and scrub the paint with either white spirit or liquid paper thinner. it will eventually come out, then stick them through the wash.
jeans are about the only type of clothing that will survive this treatment though!
HTH