ASTM D3938-00

Standard Guide for Determining or Confirming Care Instructions for Apparel and Other Textile Consumer Products

SCOPE
1.1 This guide may be used to determine and confirm the appropriate care label instructions for apparel, piece goods, and other consumer textile products excluding textile floor coverings and upholstered fabrics.
1.2 This guide encompasses the following care procedures: home laundering, commercial laundering, professional drycleaning, and coin-operated drycleaning.
1.3 This guide includes provision for evaluating the complete consumer textile product and the product components.
1.4 This guide covers the performance characteristics as a result of refurbishing that are important in determining the acceptability of a textile product to the consumer.
1.5 This guide is appropriate for the evaluation of all garments and household textiles that are sold with permanently attached care labels.
1.5.1 This guide may also be used in connection with the evaluation of similar materials that do not have a care label.
1.6 This standard does not purport to address all of the safety concerns, if any, associated with its use. It is the responsibility of the user of this standard to establish appropriate safety and health practices and determine the applicability of regulatory limitations prior to use.

General Information

• Status: Historical
• Publication Date: 09-Dec-2000
• ICS: 59.080.30 - Textile fabrics
• Technical Committee: D13 - Textiles
• Drafting Committee: D13.62 - Labeling

Relations

• Replaces: ASTM D3938-96 - Standard Guide for Determining or Confirming Care Instructions for Apparel and Other Textile Consumer Products
• Effective Date: 10-Dec-2000
• Replaced By: ASTM D3938-07 - Standard Guide for Determining or Confirming Care Instructions for Apparel and Other Textile Products
• Effective Date: 01-Jan-2007
• Referred By: ASTM D5253-04(2016) - Standard Terminology Relating to Floor Coverings and Textile Upholstered Furniture
• Effective Date: 10-Dec-2000
• Referred By: ASTM D5489-18 - Standard Guide for Care Symbols for Care Instructions on Textile Products
• Effective Date: 10-Dec-2000
• Referred By: ASTM D3181-15(2019) - Standard Guide for Conducting Wear Tests on Textiles
• Effective Date: 10-Dec-2000
• Referred By: ASTM F3502-23a - Standard Specification for Barrier Face Coverings
• Effective Date: 10-Dec-2000
• Referred By: ASTM D6544-21 - Standard Practice for Preparation of Textiles Prior to Ultraviolet (UV) Transmission Testing
• Effective Date: 10-Dec-2000
• Referred By: ASTM D6322-15 - Standard Guide to International Test Methods Associated with Textile Care Procedures
• Effective Date: 10-Dec-2000
• Referred By: ASTM D6603-19 - Standard Specification for Labeling of UV-Protective Textiles
• Effective Date: 10-Dec-2000
• Referred By: ASTM D5431-08(2019) - Standard Performance Specification for Woven and Knitted Sheeting Products for Institutional and Household Use
• Effective Date: 10-Dec-2000

Standards Content (Sample)

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Designation: D 3938 – 00
Standard Guide for
Determining or Confirming Care Instructions for Apparel
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and Other Textile Products
This standard is issued under the fixed designation D 3938; the number immediately following the designation indicates the year of
original adoption or, in the case of revision, the year of last revision. A number in parentheses indicates the year of last reapproval. A
superscript epsilon (e) indicates an editorial change since the last revision or reapproval.
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1. Scope in Home Laundering
2.3 Other Standards:
1.1 This guide may be used to determine and confirm the
Federal Trade Commission Trade Regulation Rule. Care
appropriatecarelabelinstructionsforapparel,piecegoods,and
Labeling of Textile Wearing Apparel and Certain Piece
other textile products excluding textile floor coverings and
Goods. Effective July 3, 1972, As Amended January 2,
upholstery.
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1984 (cited as 16 CFR 423)
1.2 This guide encompasses the following care procedures:
The National Standard of Canada—Care Labeling of Tex-
home laundering, commercial laundering, professional dry-
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tiles (CAN/CSGB-86.1-M91)
cleaning, and coin-operated drycleaning.
1.3 This guide includes provision for evaluating the com-
3. Terminology
plete textile product and the product components.
3.1 Definitions:
1.4 This guide covers the performance characteristics as a
3.1.1 Fordefinitionsofothertextiletermsusedinthisguide,
result of refurbishing that are important in determining the
refer to Terminology D 123. For definitions of terms related to
acceptability of a textile product.
care instructions, refer to Terminology D 3136.
1.5 This guide is appropriate for the evaluation of all
3.1.2 care instructions, n—in textiles, a series of directions
garments and household textiles that are sold with care labels.
that describe practices which should refurbish a product
1.5.1 This guide may also be used in connection with the
without adverse effects and warn against any part of the
evaluation of similar materials that do not have a care label.
directions which one could reasonably be expected to use that
1.6 This standard does not purport to address all of the
may harm the items.
safety concerns, if any, associated with its use. It is the
3.1.3 main components, n—in textiles, those sections of a
responsibility of the user of this standard to establish appro-
consumer product which constitute the largest continuous
priate safety and health practices and determine the applica-
homogeneous areas of the product that are typical of the
bility of regulatory limitations prior to use.
product.
2. Referenced Documents
4. Significance and Use
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2.1 ASTM Standards:
4.1 This is a guide to help a manufacturer distributor, or
D 123 Terminology Relating to Textiles
importer establish a reasonable basis for care information.
D 3136 Terminology Relating to Care Labels for Textile
4.2 The manufacturer, distributor, or importer should pos-
and Leather Products Other Than Textile Floor Coverings
sess, prior to sale, reliable evidence that the product was not
and Upholstery
harmed when refurbished reasonably often according to the
2.2 AATCC Methods:
instructions.Additionallytheyshouldpossessreliableevidence
Technical Manual of the American Association of Textile
that the product or a fair sample of the product would be
Chemists and Colorists
harmed when refurbished by methods warned against on the
Method 188 Colorfastness to Sodium Hypochlorite Bleach
label.
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This guide is under the jurisdiction of ASTM Committee D13 on Textiles and
is the direct responsibility of Subcommittee D13.62 on Textile Care Labeling.
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Current edition approved Dec. 10, 2000. Published March 2001. Originally Available from American Association of Textile Chemists and Colorists, P.O.
published as D 3938 – 93. Last previous edition D 3938 – 96. Box 12215, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709.
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For referenced ASTM standards, visit the ASTM website, www.astm.org, or Available from Federal Trade Commission, 6th Street and Pennsylvania
contact ASTM Customer Service at [e-mail]. For Annual Book of ASTM Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20580.
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Standards volume information, refer to the standard’s Document Summary page on Available from Canadian Government Publishing Centre, Supply and Services
the ASTM website. Canada, Publication Section, Hull (Quebec) K1A OS9.
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4.3 Thisguideisintendedforgeneralusebythosewhowish 7.3.2 Staining or self-staining, that is transference, or run-
to determine whether apparel or other textile products will ning of original color from one product to another or from one
perform in an acceptable manner when the care instructions on area to
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