Ironing has been a vital but tedious task for millennia. With new types of textiles and changing priorities, retiring the old ...

WORK THE ANGLES: Irons and ironing boards have pointed tips for a reason. Use the pointed tip of the iron to press garments with darts or corners. Iron from the innermost part of the dart and work ...

Ironing Board Though compact — tabletop ironing boards are convenient — you actually sacrifice the space you need to maneuver around the garment. Old-fashioned standup ironing boards allow the clothes ...

The method usually adopted by laundresses for ironing shirts, skirts and similar garments is to lay the ironing board across two chairs, and by lifting up one end pass the garment off or on as the ...

A former enslaved woman, Sarah Boone, became the fourth Black woman in the USA to be awarded a patent for her collapsible ironing board on April 26, 1892, which improved the way clothes are pressed.