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Fibres are long chains, wound and bound together. When they are squeezed and stretched, they usually return to their original shape. However, some fibres react badly to excessive stetching or high temperature. The fibres can disentangle themselves from each other, losing shape and integrity. Hot man made fibres can shrink or even start to melt at high temperature.

The properties of the polymers (man made or natural) in fibres dictate which washing conditions are deemed suitable. Hence, your clothes have labels giving maximum washing temperatures or not machine washable or dry clean only or do not iron etc.

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