When you drop your clothes off at Tip Top, Flash or DombaServ Premium depots, we follow a pattern that holds true at just about any top, world class dry-cleaning operation running today. Your clothes go through the following steps: Tagging and inspection – small paper tags or little labels written on a shirt collar, are used to identify […]
Dry Cleaning Evolution
Like many inventions, dry cleaning came about by accident. In 1855, Jean Baptiste Jolly, a French dye-works owner, noticed that his table cloth became cleaner after his maid accidentally overturned a kerosene lamp on it. Operating through his dye-works company, Jolly offered a new service and called it “dry cleaning.” Early dry cleaners used a […]
What is Dry Cleaning?
Doing laundry has been a common household activity for years. Whether the technology was beating the garments on rocks by the river or pushing buttons on programmed washing machines, this process depends on water and a mechanical action usually assisted by soap or an alkali. The purpose of an alkali is to saponify the oils […]