temperature.
You wait for it to heat.
Then you glide the soleplate over the fabric.Charcoal
The entire process depends on electricity, something most people now take for granted.
But electricity wasn’t always available in homes, and even after electric appliances began appearing, they weren’t immediately affordable or widespread.
People still needed ways to press clothing.
That meant using other sources of heat.
Earlier irons could be heated directly on a stove, over a fire, or by placing hot material inside the iron itself.
Charcoal irons belonged to that last
