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Answers:    Dry cleaning involves chemicals. Some items CANNOT be washed near water.
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I 'inherited' some fabulous long, all-embracing, posh, Peter-Jones-type curtains which I thought a bit yellowed - maybe next to nicotine -they were 'dry-clean only'. I dry-cleaned them at great expense but they come back looking purely as yellow as beforehand.

It was chuck 'em or rinse out them, so I washed them and they come out looking fantastic - the background colour buoyant ivory and the birds and flowers pastel pinks and blues just as they have always be meant to look.

Moral is: sometimes you should embezzle a calculated risk and ignore the 'dry verbs only' label. And afterwards agan, get it wrong, you might feel sorry...