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You sure?
Yes they pay to be named there, but it doesn't mean they know any more than another experienced technician.
Andrew, yes manufacturers do cover their butts in terms of the info they put on care instructions.
I've seen plenty that say on the same label "Do not wet clean" and then "Do not use dry cleaning solvents" !!!
As Mike says, there is no real way of telling without performing a bit of low-risk testing.
I've actually just remembered the last time I chickened out of wetting a suite. It was a black cotton print, very thin and flimsy fabric, with a sort of chinese-looking pattern, the job was for a high-end customer who was spending over £600 with me
I didn't want it to end up looking slightly less black in some places, as many cotton prints will suffer loss of colour when extracted. Also didn't want to risk snagging with the hand tool.
It wasn't visibly soiled, so I gave it a good old vacuum and a spray & wipe with mineral spirit dry cleaning solution. This was in December 2005.
I cleaned a dark green cotton print a couple of weeks ago, extracted a little test area and dried it off with no visible difference... but when I emptied the machine the water was tinged with green as expected! I never apply spotting solvents to these, just too much risk of ending up with a pale patch! My wet crock test with an alcohol spotter backed this up, the colour of the towel looked like I'd just wiped wet paint off something!