Random question: How do you clean a tie?

[Burbank]

I have to do the whole shirt and tie thing every working day and so I have quite a few combinations.

However, the other day I spilt food (messy eater!) on one of my favourite ties and it's left a grease stain. Now I've tried to wash a tie once before in a washing machine and it went all funny - lost it's shape and stuff.

So how do you clean a silk tie? Surely it can be a job for a dry cleaner?

[Bunker65]

I haven't the first clue how to clean a silk tie but did a Google search & found this:

http://www.ehow.com/how_2967_clean-silk-tie.html

Hopefully you can get some info from there that will help you get your tie clean. Good luck with it :).

[p2501]

sport remover should do it. but i dunno if it'll affect the underlying silk.

i'd send it out to a cleaner.