[Sca-cooks] Viking smoothing board

[Elaine Koogler]

lilinah at earthlink.net wrote:
>
> 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.
>
>   
Hmmmmm.....a couple of times, when I was traveling  lot for work, I 
fixed the hem on a pair of pants that way...it was before hotel rooms 
always came with ironing boards...and, as the resident "shrimp", pants I 
purchase are almost always too short!  So, I didn't have time to shorten 
them at home, so did it at the hotel.  No iron or ironing board, so I 
stuck the bottoms of the pants under the mattress.  Next morning, the 
hem was nicely pressed in!

Kiri

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