I put small pieces in a bag for delicates and the larger pieces I wash and hang to dry. I have a drying rack and I drape it over that and just re position the material every couple hours to speed the drying.Ii use to but I seldom machine dry any of them, I still press all of it.
I tried the cutting the corners and it didn't seem to do anything for me, it still unraveled lots.

i put all my fabric in a pillow case to wash and i take it out of the pillow case before putting in the dryer.

I use a salad spinner to wash small amounts that I hand wash, it is one dedicated to just fabric :wink:
Lots of great tips here

thanks everyone, lots of good suggestions.

I also baste the cut ends (WOF) before washing and drying..helps a lot.......

I started washing in a pillowcase and dried in one but I found the material to be really wrinkled and take a long time to iron. Now I wash in the pillowcase but take out to dry, this works so much better and less ironing.

I like to wash and dry the fabric before cutting to see what it wants to do naturally.

I very seldom even try to "straighten" a fabric by pulling on it diagonally now. It just seems to go back to whatever it wanted to do after being washed.

I try to check the grainlines of the fabric BEFORE buying now. Just because it was cut perpendicularly to the fold is no guarantee that the crosswise grainline is actually perpendicular to the selvages any more.

Sometimes fabric gets pulled off-grain in the processing.