Complete Italian translation table for care instructions, washing labels, and textile symbols. Copy-ready translations for your Shopify product labels.
Italy is one of the largest fashion and textile markets in Europe. If your Shopify store sells clothing or any product with care instructions to Italian customers, your washing labels need to be in Italian. EU textile regulations require that care information is comprehensible to the buyer, and Italian customers expect Italian labels. This guide provides a complete translation of care symbols and washing instructions to Italian. To automate this across your entire Shopify catalogue, the Translate Product Images app for Shopify translates care labels into Italian and 30+ other languages automatically.
TL;DR: Need to translate washing labels and care instructions to Italian for your Shopify store?
Here’s a complete translation table plus tips for the Italy, Switzerland (Ticino), San Marino market.
If you sell clothing, textiles, or any products with care labels to Italian-speaking customers, you need translated washing instructions. Customers expect to see care information in their language – and in many markets, it’s legally required.
Here’s every standard washing label instruction translated to Italian (Italiano). Copy these directly or use them as reference:
| English | Italian |
|---|---|
| Machine wash cold | Lavare in lavatrice a freddo |
| Machine wash warm | Lavare in lavatrice a tiepido |
| Hand wash only | Lavare solo a mano |
| Do not wash | Non lavare |
| English | Italian |
|---|---|
| Do not bleach | Non candeggiare |
| Bleach when needed | Candeggiare se necessario |
| English | Italian |
|---|---|
| Tumble dry low | Asciugare in asciugatrice a bassa temperatura |
| Tumble dry medium | Asciugare in asciugatrice a media temperatura |
| Do not tumble dry | Non asciugare in asciugatrice |
| Dry flat | Asciugare in piano |
| Hang to dry | Asciugare appeso |
| English | Italian |
|---|---|
| Iron low heat | Stirare a bassa temperatura |
| Iron medium heat | Stirare a media temperatura |
| Iron high heat | Stirare ad alta temperatura |
| Do not iron | Non stirare |
| English | Italian |
|---|---|
| Dry clean only | Solo lavaggio a secco |
| Do not dry clean | Non lavare a secco |
Italy is a top 10 global e-commerce market with over €50 billion in annual sales. Fashion and textiles are particularly strong categories.
Properly translated care labels signal that you take the Italian-speaking market seriously. It builds trust and reduces returns from customers who couldn’t understand washing instructions.
Italian uses accent marks (à, è, é, ì, ò, ù) primarily on final vowels. Text length is similar to English.
When translating product images for your Shopify store, keep these language-specific requirements in mind. Your translations need to display correctly on the actual product labels.
You have several options to display translated care instructions:
For stores with many products, manually translating each care label is time-consuming. Our bulk translation features let you translate all product images and labels to Italian in minutes instead of hours.
Care labels are just one type of product label that needs translation. Consider also translating:
Now you have all the Italian care instruction translations you need. For a complete solution that handles all your product image translations automatically: