[Sca-cooks] Viking smoothing board

[lilinah at earthlink.net]

Hrothny wrote:
>  Yeah... since some of the women in Norse communities seem to have worn
>  pleated linen dresses, I can sure understand how handy those boards were!

Well, for formal Central Javanese occasions, one wears a specially 
pleated kain panjang - a long piece of cotton batik in special 
patterns - wrapped around one's lower half - the typical selvedge 
measurement of a piece goes from waist to floor. To achieve the 
pleating the fabric was folded, then put under one's mattress the 
night before the event. One slept on one's mattress and, voila, 
pleated with no ironing or smoothing on a board with a rock.

-- 
Urtatim (that's err-tah-TEEM)
the persona formerly known as Anahita

(In Indonesia, a sarong is a sewn tube that is worn by men and women 
(but men more than women) to sleep in, go to the bathroom, or relax 
in around the house - it is unlike the "fashion" sarong, which is a 
randomly sized rectangle of cloth, sometimes with fringed edges, that 
is rakishly tied at the hip of a generally otherwise scantily clad 
and often well tanned female non-Indonesian)