Velvet and velveteen are luxurious-feeling fabric that can easily be wrinkled and difficult to straighten out.

Before you let anything touch your velvet clothes, make sure that you read the labels.

Velvet and velveteen should be steamed and not ironed. You can do this by hangine velvet in a steamy bathroom. This would work for mildly wrinkled clothes. If you have a hand-held steamer or a presser, this would work perfectly. Hang the clothes up to let them dry.

A steam iron can also be used. Just lay a clean cloth, preferably a terry towel, and place it on your ironing board. Place the velvet material on it. Place another thin cloth, or a sheet of typing paper over the velvet and iron away, making sure that you do not press heavily.