Pressing PV Kilts

[ChattanCat]

Well, I pressed the kilt using a heavy duty ironing board with the iron set to just below the wool setting. I used a pressing cloth and the traditional method of pressing. It worked great.
I posted the results in a new thread:
http://www.xmarksthescot.com/forum/s...ad.php?t=31102

[Pleater]

And very well done too.

The iron, and different pressing methods are just as much tools in the construction of a kilt as the needle and thread.

You can make or mar the whole thing by making right or wrong choices.

Several of the lighter kilts I have look like something best used for wiping the floors when not hung up carefully after washing. I get the spray starch and put water into the iron, and before long they are transformed.

[James MacMillan]

I get the spray starch and put water into the iron, and before long they are transformed.

New sign shingle for Pleater's front door.

"Kilts Transformed - Inquire within"

[emolas]

And very well done too.

The iron, and different pressing methods are just as much tools in the construction of a kilt as the needle and thread.

You can make or mar the whole thing by making right or wrong choices.

Several of the lighter kilts I have look like something best used for wiping the floors when not hung up carefully after washing. I get the spray starch and put water into the iron, and before long they are transformed.

I've been thinking about using a little starch to help keep a few of the more obstinate wrinkles from returning but I was afraid to. Doesn't starch affect the swing of the kilt?

[Pleater]

You'd have to use a lot of starch to reduce the swing. A lot.

I think that the swing is actually improved by a light starching. The fabric is made slightly less inclined to stick to itself by the smooth surface so it oscillates more freely than before. I think that there is silicone added to the sray too, and that reduces the friction both for ironing and in wear.

I shall have to get my shingle maker onto the new sign right away.

As soon as I find out what a shingle would be doing by my front door.

Hmm - 'Every tum ti tum ti tum is a shingle or a rafter tum ti tum ti tum ti taa taa, when we build our little home'

Yes - two nations divided by the same language.

It would have fallen off the roof?

[James MacMillan]

I shall have to get my shingle maker onto the new sign right away.

As soon as I find out what a shingle would be doing by my front door.

Sorry, sometimes I forget that we speak the same language, divided.

I think the term shingle, in this context anyway, stems from our westerly expansion, where the towns were springing up very fast. A craftsman, lawyer, doctor, whatever would move into town and to announce his presence, grab an unblemished shingle (small square of thin wood that goes on a roof) write his/her profession on it and post it at the front door. Thereby announcing to the town that he was ready for business.

The phrase stuck over here, and now when someone says that he is "putting out his shingle." he means that they are starting a new business.

[Pleater]

Shingles are wood?!!

Shingle - in English is also used to describe a beach of stones rather than sand, so I asumed that the shingles for a roof would be like slate, some form of mineral or a smooth flat stone.

Without some form of preservative, and an advanced one at that, wood would just rot, split, curl up and drop off in our climate.

I did remember a bit more of that song
every single little dream
is a shingle or a rafter,
we will paint the house with laughter
when we build our little home.

It came from the film Roman Scandals made about 1935

I think that our doctors and dentists etc talk about 'putting up their plate' which is actually an oblong of brass engraved with their name and qualifications. Surgeries with a lot of members have doorways that gleam in the sunlight.

[James MacMillan]

Shingles are wood?!! Usually Cedar, or other wood that naturally resists rot and insects.

Shingle - in English is also used to describe a beach of stones rather than sand, so I asumed that the shingles for a roof would be like slate, some form of mineral or a smooth flat stone. We have them too, for the rich!

Without some form of preservative, and an advanced one at that, wood would just rot, split, curl up and drop off in our climate. Some parts of the States and Canada have much harsher climates.... the Yucon and Alaska come to mind, and really old log cabins still exist with perfectly funtional wood shingles.

I did remember a bit more of that song
every single little dream
is a shingle or a rafter,
we will paint the house with laughter
when we build our little home.

It came from the film Roman Scandals made about 1935

I think that our doctors and dentists etc talk about 'putting up their plate' which is actually an oblong of brass engraved with their name and qualifications. Surgeries with a lot of members have doorways that gleam in the sunlight. That's pretty neat too! But, us poor colonials don't have much plate brass!

Weird, the direction that some of these threads take! What were we supposed to be talking about?