<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;" align="left"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Tzitzis can often get torn if one does not use sufficient care when laundering them. There are various patents in how to launder them without damage. However, sending them to a non-Jewish laundry can indeed create problems. One person reports that the laundry charged him a large sum and when queried they answered that &ldquo;it was hard work undoing all those knots&rdquo;. At least the tzitzis were not ruined &ndash; they could be reknotted. However in another story I heard, (I cannot vouch for its accuracy), the tzitzis beged was returned minus the tzitzis together with a note that the laundry had cut off the threads hanging from the corners &ndash; in this case the tzitzis threads were more than just torn!!</span></span></span></p>