1, the meaning of different
Down is long in the goose, duck's abdomen, into the rutabaga-like down, into pieces called feathers.
Duck down is long in the duck's abdomen, into a rutabaga-like down, into a piece called feathers.
2, different characteristics
Down is an animal protein fiber, down ball-shaped fibers are densely covered with millions of tiny triangular pores, with temperature changes and contraction and expansion, resulting in thermoregulation, the body can absorb the heat of the flow of circulation to isolate the outside world of the invasion of cold air.
Duck down is very fluffy, saving a lot of air in the center and preventing air flow leading to heat loss. At the same time, duck down itself has poor thermal conductivity, preventing heat loss caused by thermal conduction. As a result, duck down has excellent warmth retention properties.
Expanded Information:
Maintenance
Experience 1: Always hand wash
In the inside of the down jacket, are sewn with a printed maintenance and washing instructions of the small label, careful people will find that 90% of the down jacket labeled to be hand-washed, do not dry-cleaned, because dry-cleaned with the medicinal water will affect the warmth, but also will make the fabric aging. Machine washing and drying, was wringing after the down jacket, very easy to lead to uneven thickness of the filler, making clothing out of shape, affecting the beauty and warmth.
Experience 2: 30 degrees water temperature rinse
First down jacket into the cold water soaked 20 minutes, so that the inside and outside of the down jacket fully wet. Dissolve the detergent into 30 degrees of warm water, and then put the down jacket into it to soak for a quarter of an hour, and then gently brush with a soft brush. Rinsing should also use warm water, can facilitate the detergent fully dissolved in water, can make the down jacket rinsing cleaner.
Experience 3: the concentration of washing powder can not be too high
If you must use washing powder to clean down jacket, usually two basins of water into the 4 to 5 tablespoons of washing powder is appropriate, if the concentration is too high, it is difficult to rinse clean, down in the residue of the washing powder, it will affect the fluffiness of the down, greatly reducing the warmth.
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