Wash Aways are non-woven for stabilizing delicate and transparent fabrics, velvet or terry cloth. Water soluble embroidery backings are especially well suited for lacework and create a clean embroidery with all freehand machine embroidery techniques, creative applications, and decorative machine embroidery.

It is called Wash Away because the stabilizer is simply washed away when put into warm or cold water. The Wash Away stabilizer disappears completely, only the embroidery remains.