IF you see a funny-looking Dalek, a Pink Floyd album cover or the Avengers logo, you might be illiterate.
A recent survey found that only three percent of us can identify all the washing, drying and ironing symbols on our clothes.
Of the symbols, “hand wash only” was the most well-known, at 79 percent, followed by “dry clean only,” at 61 percent – but how many do you understand?
Find out if you’re a laundry legend or a fry-up by taking Josh Saunders’ laundry symbols quiz.
And the answers…
1) Hand wash only
2) Washing machine, any cycle
3) Synthetic cycle
4) Gentle or wool wash cycle
5) Not suitable for hand or machine washing
6) Wash at 30ºC or less
7) Wash at 40ºC or less
8) Wash at 50ºC or less
9) Wash at 60ºC or less
10) Wash at 95ºC or less
11) Tumble dry, any heat
12) Tumble dry on low heat only
13) Tumble dry on medium heat only
14) Tumble dry, only on high heat
15) Do not dry in the dryer
16) Dry clean with any solvent (no, not the Marvel logo)
17) Dry clean with any solvent except trichloroethylene
18) Dry clean only with petroleum solvents
19) Do not dry clean
20) Dry clean only
21) Ironing is allowed (nothing to do with Daleks)
22) Iron at 110C max.
23) Do not iron
24) Iron at 150C max.
25) Do not steam
26) No, it’s not Dark Side Of The Moon by Pink Floyd – any type of bleach is allowed
27) Only use non-chlorine bleach
28) Do not use bleach
29) You can twist
30) Don’t wring it dry
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