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<p>[QUOTE="silverthwait, post: 12898, member: 103"]One buys it dry -- Amazon has it, although probably your local hardware store might as well. And, yes, it works for table cloths. Incidentally, my grandmother actually Liked to iron, but she was not about to make it any more difficult than necessary. Her dining room table expanded to seat -- I think it was 14. And she had monster double damasks nearly down to the floor for it. </p><p><br /></p><p>Come Tuesdays (Mondays, we washed, just like the rhyme), a few blankets would be laid across the table pads, the cloth against that, and away went the iron. </p><p><br /></p><p>Although Greg's trick really is quite adequate, my grandmother's napkins had all been embroidered with her three initials (dozens of them, all done by her), and therefore they had to be ironed first on the wrong side to ward off puckering.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="silverthwait, post: 12898, member: 103"]One buys it dry -- Amazon has it, although probably your local hardware store might as well. And, yes, it works for table cloths. Incidentally, my grandmother actually Liked to iron, but she was not about to make it any more difficult than necessary. Her dining room table expanded to seat -- I think it was 14. And she had monster double damasks nearly down to the floor for it. Come Tuesdays (Mondays, we washed, just like the rhyme), a few blankets would be laid across the table pads, the cloth against that, and away went the iron. Although Greg's trick really is quite adequate, my grandmother's napkins had all been embroidered with her three initials (dozens of them, all done by her), and therefore they had to be ironed first on the wrong side to ward off puckering.[/QUOTE]
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