The five base categories of the internationally coordinated GINETEX/ISO 3758 textile care system — washing, bleaching, drying, ironing and professional care — plus the crossed-out tumble-drying instruction. Each base shape encodes one category, and the dots, bars and crosses added to it encode the specific instruction, so the shapes are only readable as a set: a triangle always means bleaching whatever is drawn inside it, a square always means drying.
A tub-shaped outline with a wavy water line, the GINETEX base symbol for washing instructions on a garment care label.
A triangle outline, the GINETEX base symbol for bleaching instructions on a garment care label.
A square outline, the GINETEX base symbol category covering all drying instructions on a garment care label.
An outline of a hand-iron, the GINETEX base symbol for ironing instructions on a garment care label.
A circle outline, the GINETEX base symbol for professional dry-cleaning or wet-cleaning instructions on a garment care label.
A square containing a circle, crossed through with an X, instructing that a garment must not be machine-dried.