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Themes Gallery: Cooking & Cleaning


Goffering Iron and Victorian Ladies

This goffering iron is heated and used to press pleats into a frill.

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Roll over this photo to switch between the goffering irons in the museum's collection and a photo of a group of ladies whose clothes would have needed to be pressed with goffering irons.


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