IF you see a funny-looking Dalek, a Pink Floyd album cover or the Avengers logo, you may be laundry illiterate.
A recent poll found just three per cent of us could identify all of the washing, drying and ironing symbols on our clothes.
Of the symbols, “hand wash only” was the most well known, with 79 per cent, followed by “dry clean only”, with 61 per cent – but how many do you understand?
Find out if you are a laundry legend or spin-fried by taking Josh Saunders’ quiz on washing symbols.
1) HAND wash only
2) Washing machine, any cycle
3) Synthetics cycle
4) Gentle or wool wash cycle
5) Not suitable for hand or machine wash
6) Wash at 30C or below
7) Wash at 40C or below
8) Wash at 50C or below
9) Wash at 60C or below
10) Wash at 95C or below
11) Tumble dry, any heat
12) Tumble dry, low heat only
13) Tumble dry, medium heat only
14) Tumble dry, high heat only
15) Do not tumble dry
16) Dry clean with any solvent (nope, it’s not the Marvel logo)
17) Dry clean with any solvent except trichloroethylene
18) Dry clean with petroleum solvents only
19) Do not dry clean
20) Dry clean only
21) Ironing is allowed (nothing to do with Daleks)
22) Iron at 110C max
23) Do not iron
24) Iron at 150C max
25) Do not steam-iron
26) No, not Pink Floyd’s Dark Side Of The Moon – it’s any type of bleach allowed
27) Use non-chlorine bleach only
28) Do not bleach
29) You can wring dry
30) Do not wring dry
