# Removing a crease in a silk tie...

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/removing-a-crease-in-a-silk-tie/220499>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [December 22, 2003, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/removing-a-crease-in-a-silk-tie/220499 "2003-12-22T19:22:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![McDeath\_the\_Mad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a3d4f5/32.png) [@McDeath\_the\_Mad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/McDeath_the_Mad)\
**Post date:** [December 22, 2003, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/removing-a-crease-in-a-silk-tie/220499/1 "2003-12-22T19:22:38Z")

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I have a silk tie that fell on my floor in a heap and has developed a crease in it.

How would I go about removing said crease?

MtM

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**Author:** ![Lsura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Lsura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lsura)\
**Post date:** [December 22, 2003, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/removing-a-crease-in-a-silk-tie/220499/2 "2003-12-22T19:43:32Z")

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I’d say press it lightly from the underside (the side with the seam) with a very slightly warm iron and _no steam_ - most irons have a setting for silk. Start with a setting that seems too low, because you can always increase it little by little if you need to .

Or, I’d bet you can take it to the dry cleaners and it’ll come back nice and neat for you, although [this site\* says that silk ties shouldn’t be dry cleaned, and [url=“http://www.moncktonshirts.co.uk/en-gb/dept\_6.html”]this one](http://www.shirtshop.com.au/care.html) says only to dry clean silk ties.

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**Author:** ![Lsura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Lsura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lsura)\
**Post date:** [December 22, 2003, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/removing-a-crease-in-a-silk-tie/220499/3 "2003-12-22T19:45:29Z")

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Crud. [The second link](http://www.moncktonshirts.co.uk/en-gb/dept_6.html)

[the first link](http://www.entirelyties.com/care.html)