IRONING SILK

Shannon News, 4 June 1929, Page 4

IRONING SILK

Silk garments are delightfully easy to launder when you know exactly how. This comes with experience once you have the theory. The best way to learn how to do anything is to watch .someone who does it thoroughly. Most girls can wash and iron and housekeep because they have watched mother or the maid do it, and whether they do it well or ill depends mueh on the example copied.

To iron silk so that it looks like new, it should not .'be too dry or too damp, and the iron must no't be too hot. You must not sprinkle silk to damp it, because this gives many silks apots and others a wrinkled effect . The best way to get the proper all-over, damping effect is to squeeze out as much of the water as possible, and then roll the article up lightly in a thick dry towel, do not roll the article first and then the towel round it, but roll it up in the towel as you roll jam in a cake. It shoiild be ready for ironing then in about an hour.

If the silk is very thick you should hang it out in the air (but in the shade) for about an hour before rolling it, or, after it has been rolled for an hour, unm’l it from ti.e fi -«t towel and re-roll it in another dry towel for had! or three-quarters of an hour. To test the iron for correct heat, touch it quickly with a wotted finger. If the iron sizzles aid the damp spot vanishes at once it is too hot. An iron too hot will make white silk yellow and papery and it will spoil the colour of dyed and printed silkis. Most silks are best ironed on the wrong side ,particularly crepe de chine.