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Title |
Removable Roller for Crimping Iron, c. late 1800s |
Object Name |
Iron, Fluting |
Description |
Removable Roller for Crimping Iron, c. late 1800s. Fluted hollow cylindrical roller with wooden handle, for use in crimping iron (Yee 1.1). Made of iron. Wooden handle is threaded on an iron dowel so that it turns freely from the rest of the piece. The handle is pear-shaped and stained a mahogany color. Crimps are .0625" wide. |
Date |
c. late 1880s |
Creator |
Unknown |
Catalog Number |
2019.088.001.2 |
Dimensions |
H-11.5 W-1.75 D-3.5 inches |
Collection |
3D - Maintenance Tools & Equipment |
Inscription Text |
None. |
Provenance |
Used at Ching Lee Laundrey in San Mateo. |
Notes |
"In the 1870s dressmakers were using pleated frills, also called fluting, lavishly. Dressmakers and classy laundries offering "fancy" ironing services both had plenty of use for a fluting machine. Fluters were sold for home use too. Classified ads from the 1860s to the end of the century show employers looking for a laundress who "thoroughly understands fluting", or women claiming they could "do all kinds of fine laundry work, pleating, French fluting, starching, and polishing"." [http://www.homethingspast.com/dudley-fluting-machine/ 10/24/2019] "By the mid-19th century crimping machines - fluted rollers turned by a handle - were in use. Also called fluting irons, or fluters, many slightly different models were designed for creating rows of narrow, neat and even frilling. 19th century inventors thought of more and more ways of tackling specialist ironing tasks and a combined fluting and sad-iron was patented in the USA in 1870. As well as the two ridged rollers way of making frills, fluting could be done between hinged sections, which would swing shut to create a general-purpose iron for pressing the flatter parts of garments." [http://www.oldandinteresting.com/fluting-goffering-irons.aspx 10/24/2019] |
Search Terms |
Irons Laundry San Mateo |
Subjects |
Irons (Pressing) |
Credit line |
Courtesy of Jacque Yee |