The care instructions say "wash cold, tumble dry low". When we received the shipment, they had the normal "been in plastic too long" smell, so we washed them in cold -- the colors ran -- and some ran very badly. The nice vertical lines were now smeared across the placemat. Then after a tumble through the dryer they looked like dried seaweed so every one of them needed to be ironed to be workable. Would not purchase this brand again.