Ohh yes!
There is mangling to remove excess water after laundering, and there is cold mangling of linen which is basically a way of ironing via compression. Much better for the cloth as it does not subject linen to high heat.
Candide
Ohh yes!
There is mangling to remove excess water after laundering, and there is cold mangling of linen which is basically a way of ironing via compression. Much better for the cloth as it does not subject linen to high heat.
Candide
See the link below:
http://64.233.169.104/search?q=cache:HjtfKgcFBzcJ:
http://64.233.169.104/search?q=cache:HjtfKgcFBzcJ:
Another link:
Not the same thing (in UK) as mangling but it's the same principle. Yes, it's excellent. And I meant polished, not shiny!
I've never known high heat damage linen. It doesn't survive in wet conditions and doesn't like sharp folds or abrasion but ironing with a hot iron isn't a problem. I don't use a steam iron.
Mary
automatic
By George, I think she's got it! *LOL*
Yes, find the finish actually better than when ironed. Sort of a beautiful gloss like finish.
Yes, linen can withstand high heat, indeed requires a hot iron applied to very wet linen to get good results, but cold mangling (calendaring) supposedly is better for linen, well at least from what one has been able to understand. Do know that like ironing damp linen, especially long and or large items, the thing does not get all crumpled up at the start by the time one finishes the end. Also the linen feels different when calendared rather than simply ironed.
Candide
:-)
It would be a nice experience ...
Imagine freshly laundered calendared linen sheets every night!
I can dream. and that's what I'm going to do now, goodnight - and thanks!
Mary
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Neither of those words is english - i'm not a polyglot, sadly :-(
Um. ALL ironing?
Not so, a daughter lives in France. She took only personal items with her and had to buy essentials. Ironing boards and irons were easily available ... in fact she was surprised at how similar were household items to what was available here.
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Oh, I don't quarrel with the facts, it was some opinions - memories - which I find not to agree with my experience! As I said, I have saved the site, it's very interesting.
'morning :-)
Although it's raining and grey ... LOL
Mary
available
Should have been clearer; meant to say all ironing done on "mangle" type machines such as automatic ironers and so forth.
big cast iron
rollers.
fact it's
babies, it was a
I did not know what a mangle was BUT...
I did manage to get my arm sucked between the rollers of a more modern (electric) version of these things when i was young :) i was watching an aunt feed sheets/clothes through the rollers when something got stuck and i jumped in and tried to push from the back rather than pull from the front :(
anyways seems like my hand/arm just shot in between the rollers and i am not sure it had a reverse ? if it had not been for the wad of sheets sitting next to my arm it probably would have done some serious **mangling**
robb
I grew up with a wringer washer, and got my hands squeezed between the rollers quite a few times. You sure learned to keep one hand free for whapping the wringer release lever on top.
That washer also would occasionally go berserk and start swinging the wringer part around and around on its axis over the laundry tubs, and if you weren't fast enough on your feet, it could cold-c*ck you. Learned to keep the power cord in the looser of the two available receptacles so you could pull the cord out quickly when the wringer took off.
I do love automatic washers....
Kay
AAAAAARRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!
iMakes me feel funny in my water!
Mary
What's 'cold-c*ck'?
Yes, they've transformed our lives probably more than any other gadget.
Mary
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Smack you upside the head hard enough to knock you out.
Thanks - but no thanks (I don't want to experience it!).
Never heard of that.
Mary
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U.S. slang
Interesting, the expresssion used in my family and my DH's was "cold-conk".
Beverly, 3 above cold-conk is cold-c*ck meaning completely and utterly sooooo.... why can't you cold-conk yourself cold-c*ck on the upside of your head.. or perhaps Kay ,who is such an encyclopedia of knowledge just mis-spelled the word. But, but, but that can't be, not our Kay. ;)(Big fat evil grin as I run very fast in th opposite direction) Juno
Knock you out cold (unconscious).
Kay
I just found another meaning for cold-c*ck and it's knock unconscious. it's on the bottom of the first column of the page Beverly used My apology to Kay for ever doubting her. I should have known better. Juno
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