Question

how much time do silk cloth take to dry out

Answer 1

Good question. Geoff this depends on several things whether you are line air drying or air drying without heat, inside a mechanical dryer:

For line drying: Thick fabrics ( denim) take up to 24 hours. Synthetics will take as little as 4 or 5 hours or an hour

When I line dry clothes I put a table fan underneath them, and the clothes dry way faster with the cold air flowing through them, without damage. Its amazing how much faster they dry with a breeze whether artificial or not, flowing through them.

When you dry sweaters you should lay them flat somewhere on a rack so they don't lose their shape. Thick wool takes forever to line dry, 24 hours or more. Cotton shirts take 6 hours or more, with no forced cold air flowing through them.

For induced heat and air exchange tumble drying in a machine:

Several things matter: 1. The thickness of the weave of the fabric. 2. The type of fabric 3. How fast the clothes were spun in the clothes washer. 3 The temperature you’re drying the clothes in. 4 How many clothes you’re drying at one time.

Normally thick fabrics like cotton jeans will take anywhere from 40 to 54 minutes. If you only have a few jeans in the dryer, they could take as little as 30 minutes.

If you wear delicates (a lot of athletic wear is made of delicate fabric, it’s not just for women) these could take as little as 10 minutes to dry in the dryer on low heat

Cotton casual dress shirts and permanent press dress shirts take anywhere from 25 to 35 minutes. These are dried on medium heat.

Your tighty whiteys will take 30 to 40 minutes on high heat. On lower heat they will take longer to dry. Keep in mind lower heat is less damaging to fabrics.

Synthetics/ delicates like I said before take very little time to dry (10 to 20 minutes)

Just like the washer you get better results if you don’t stuff the dryer as full as you can. The clothes need room to move around and for the air to circulate. They will dry much faster if the dryer is no more than 25 to 35 % full

Answer 2

Good question. Geoff this depends on several things whether you are line air drying or air drying without heat, inside a mechanical dryer:

For line drying: Thick fabrics ( denim) take up to 24 hours. Synthetics will take as little as 4 or 5 hours or an hour

When I line dry clothes I put a table fan underneath them, and the clothes dry way faster with the cold air flowing through them, without damage. Its amazing how much faster they dry with a breeze whether artificial or not, flowing through them.

When you dry sweaters you should lay them flat somewhere on a rack so they don't lose their shape. Thick wool takes forever to line dry, 24 hours or more. Cotton shirts take 6 hours or more, with no forced cold air flowing through them.

For induced heat and air exchange tumble drying in a machine:

Several things matter: 1. The thickness of the weave of the fabric. 2. The type of fabric 3. How fast the clothes were spun in the clothes washer. 3 The temperature you’re drying the clothes in. 4 How many clothes you’re drying at one time.

Normally thick fabrics like cotton jeans will take anywhere from 40 to 54 minutes. If you only have a few jeans in the dryer, they could take as little as 30 minutes.

If you wear delicates (a lot of athletic wear is made of delicate fabric, it’s not just for women) these could take as little as 10 minutes to dry in the dryer on low heat

Cotton casual dress shirts and permanent press dress shirts take anywhere from 25 to 35 minutes. These are dried on medium heat.

Your tighty whiteys will take 30 to 40 minutes on high heat. On lower heat they will take longer to dry. Keep in mind lower heat is less damaging to fabrics.

Synthetics/ delicates like I said before take very little time to dry (10 to 20 minutes)

Just like the washer you get better results if you don’t stuff the dryer as full as you can. The clothes need room to move around and for the air to circulate. They will dry much faster if the dryer is no more than 25 to 35 % full

Also, you should dry like fabrics together, otherwise that permanent press shirt will dry way sooner than those jeans you threw in with it. When clothes are already dry in the drier, and they keep on drying, then damage to the clothes starts occurring. Keep in mind that the dryer isn’t good for clothes to begin with. It can shrink them, weaken the stitching, fade them, cause lint fuzz ball transfer and sticking, if you’re not good at sorting clothing, etc.