About West And Home
West And Home is a small reference site about textile care. It collects notes on washing, drying, and storing the fabrics found in everyday Canadian households, organised around fibre behaviour and standard care symbols.
What this site covers
The content is limited to three practical areas: washing, drying, and storage. Each topic is written to stay close to how fibres actually behave, so the guidance remains useful across different garments and household textiles rather than tied to one product.
How the notes are written
The articles reference widely published care standards, including the ISO 3758 and ASTM D5489 care-symbol systems, and general consumer information from public bodies. Where a precise figure is not well established, the text uses neutral wording instead of inventing numbers, and the sewn-in care label is always treated as the primary source for any specific item.
Images and sources
Photographs are drawn from Wikimedia Commons under Creative Commons licensing. Background information on consumer textiles and labelling in Canada is available through the Government of Canada.
This is an informational reference, not a repair, cleaning, or dry-cleaning operation. For valuable, antique, or specialist textiles, a professional cleaner is the appropriate point of contact.