Caring For Linen Ring Slings

Linen (flax) is one of the most sustainable fibres that can be used for ring slings. Flax requires minimal water and pesticides and will grow in poor quality soils. Between the textile and food industries every part of the plant is used with nothing going to waste.
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Linen can be both lightweight and strong, and is great at absorbing moisture without holding bacteria, so is perfect for summer babywearing. The moisture wicking properties of linen will help you and baby to feel cooler on hot day. Linen softens up beautifully with use.

Linen colours pictured - graphite, nimbus, ice mint, natural and truffle.

How To Wash And Break In Your Linen Ring Sling

Do not use fabric softener or bleach products - or detergents which include them.  Also avoid detergent with optical brighteners.

Unthread the ring sling for washing.  You can slip a sock around the rings so they do not knock about in the washing machine.  Wash on delicate cycle on cold with a liquid detergent. 

Hang dry and iron while still slightly damp, this is the easiest way to minimize wrinkles in your ring sling (although linen will always have a tendancy to wrinkle, I think this just adds to the beauty of this verstatile fabric) 

A linen ring slings will naturally get softer as you wash and wear it buy to hurry it along you can steam iron, tumble in the dryer with tennis balls on air dry, run it back and forth through the rings, or sleep with it for a few days, leave it in a hot car, or sit on it. You can also braid your ring sling (but don't store long term like this to avoid permacreasing your linen).