THE HISTORY OF THE IRON FROM THE IRON

  In principle

Walking between the imposing columns of the tempio of Karnak to Luxor, the ancient Tebe, or admiring wonderful the Cariatidi of the Parthenon to Atene, it is difficult to imagine that who constructed to these buildings 4000 years ago raised itself, it was dressed and it gone to work every day like we exactly today. Even, complaining itself of the alzataccia or, because not, of the dress ironed badly! Instead, we can not only find again the roots of our culture in the imponenza of the works and the gesta of our progenitori, but also in their small daily habits. We return in Egypt and Greece. Of the tempio of Luxor and that one of the Cariatidi, it hits the grace of the architectonic lines, but to a more careful eye to the particular it cannot escape the elegance of the tuniche of the Cariatidi, elegant kitoni from I drape most fine, simple folds of which however a lot it is studied on the history books of the art.

Also Pharaoh Ramesse II wears the one most fine one gonnello plissettato, stopped while still alive from a belt, that we imagine most precious. Therefore he dictated the fashion. It frescoes recovered in the Tombe egizie of Goes them of the King and of the Queens or those of Santorini in the Cicladi - witnesses of evoluta the minoica civilization - an unexceptionable taste for the beautiful one shows us, for the fine woven one, cured, above all plissettato. Folds had ago to be the true tendency 4000 years and sure status symbol of the age, inasmuch as the “mass” could allow a simple pezza of wool or rectangular linen, to wear therefore like exited from the hands of the weaver, without some seam or confection. But as they came realized of the perfect folds therefore, therefore precise, sometimes smallest? The Egizi dipped woven in a rubber solution and the pieghettavano helping itself with a flat instrument, much heavy one, that it increased the pressure of the hands. They were first lisciatoi, that they came uses to you to cold, sometimes with the water aid in order inumidire the woven ones. Eccolo, therefore, the first iron from I iron of the history of which testimony is had. In stone, in wood, marble, terracotta or glass, it is unknown when the man has begun to use it. We can only imagine that then it was much laborious one to make to slip the these heaviest objects and that, without the aid of the heat, was equally difficult to obtain perfect plissettature much.

 FROM CHINA WITH HEAT

 To force to pass and to ripassare on the woven ones without large it turns out to you, a day of the antiquity to some “drawing” more enterprising will have come in mind to become the life easier. To he, disowned genius of the slab, we must the first meaningful jump in the evolution of the iron from I iron: the discovery of the heat. It watches case was just a Chinese. The first iron from I iron to warmth has origins orients them. Draft of a container in bronze of the age Han (200 A.C. /200 D.C.), gained from the antichi burners than scent, with along manico in wood. More than an ordinary tool, it is one true and own work of art. The part that had to contain burning carbons is in cesellato bronze, representing auguring symbols well makeshift and long life. The manico is in wood fine inlaid and represents one benevolent goddess. On the bronzea part of the manico a dragone is carved protecting of the house from the anything but reassuring aspect: perhaps it had to scare the malignant spirits and to ask for eventual scottature. The iron came filled up of incandescent live coal in order to iron the more resistant woven ones, while for those most delicate ones like the precious Chinese silk, it was preferred of the warm sand. The manico of the iron from I iron was as well as more precious the how much richer owner. In simple wood without pretensions or ivory in the hands of drawing to the service of the nobler families. Instead of being it supports to you to ironing plans, the woven ones were held suspended to sides from skillful craftsmen.

 The IRON Of the CITY

 Also the Roman used bronze slabs with long manici that came heated and then passages on toghe and tuniche. Thanks to fresco of Pompei, can enter ago in a laundry of 2.000 years, the Funiculum, bottega in a which the Roman they carried the dressed ones to wash and to iron, and where it came practiced the ironing to cold or “smoothing”. For pieghettare the tuniche the Roman had adopted the same technique of the Egizi, dealt the woven one and then they ironed, smoothing down it it. However, the treatment did not come made with a rubber solution, but with a mixture that today it would make us to inorridire: water, soap and human urine!

  IRONING OF THE MIDDLE AGES

 While in China with the introduction of the heat to iron it has become a childs' play since centuries before Christ, in Europe it is ironed in the dusk until to the medieval period. The light is ignited to the return of the Crusades, moment in which the West it enters in contact with the culture orients them (1100 D.C.). It crosses to you, in fact, they do not return to empty hands. They carry stoffe to read, nearly transparent, been born from the sages hands of the weavers Middle Eastern Egyptians and. They put to acquaintance of Europe the inventions and the materials that have had way to discover during the “religious shipment”. They import also the art of the ironing, the gommatura and the woven technique of plissettatura of delicate like the linen and the silk.

 IRONS TO ALL GAS

 With passing of the centuries the iron endures one series of more or less fast evolutions. From Dutch irons in battered metal of 1200 to small boat shape, the ironing is annoying laboriously through the decades, takes advantage of the production in cast iron of 1300, that it allows to create better shapes, in order then to land to the inventions of 1800: the happy island of the iron from I iron, period in which the technique of construction it prospers between ideas, creativity and preziosismi. The first irons of according to millenium come scaldati in furnace and then it passes to you fastly on the woven ones. Unfortunately they do not render the woven one perfectly smooth and often they soil it of ash. With the time the manico of metal comes replaced from that one in wood in order to better isolate the hand from the heat, the slab becomes openable in order to contain later burning live coals or sand and also other fuel. In 1600, with diffusing itself of a more and more sophisticated fashion, it takes to strong impulse the profession of drawing: under the guide of the master-taylor many craftsmen work and numerous women to which come reserve you the humbler tasks and borings (!), between which the ironing of the more delicate dresses. Like saying: good but not worthy of gratifications! In the United States, in 1800 the lighting system to gas in the city roads appears for before the time in the history. Of them to short, also the iron from I iron takes control this source of energy, equipping itself of a special stove to connect to the tube of the gas.

 ONE NOVITA JOLT'

 In the 1891 Henry Seeley it patents a “Electric Flat Iron”, the first iron from I iron electrically with heated slab, but it has “light” a disadvantage: hung 6 kg. very! The innovation will at once electrify the consumatrici single in the years `the 60, when however most careful they already begin to appreciate the dowries of a new way to iron, extraordinarily effective in flattening also more difficult folds on all the types of woven. And' he, its maestà the iron to vapor.

 VAPOR THAT PASSION

 New York. Year 1926 runs. Between the skyscrapers (between which a also famous Flat Iron, therefore called for its shape to iron from I iron) and the first noisy ones vagiti of a hardly been born traffic are a day like many, nevertheless the million life women is in order to take one beautiful fold.
“Eldec” is born, the first iron from irons to vapor. Its successor, the “Steam Or Matic”, will come commercialized on wide scale. These heavy locomotives from bucato remain however privilege of the professional lavanderie.

 CREATED DI NOME TO YOU AND OF IRON

 In the centuries the creativity and the fantasy have been sbizzarrite also on irons from iron.

IRON TO INGOT:
Inside it came threaded a warm ingot. It served in order to iron the caps of peak and the linings of the nails head.

IRON KABYLES:
It has the same shape of the iron to ingot, but more appuntito and without socket for the ingot. The modiste used it in order to more size the nails head from mrs. from the complicated shapes. In fact, it was the most comfortable one passe-par-tout, in a position to slipping into all those unattainable angles and those folds from traditional irons.

IRON FROM I POLISH:

Since the 1700 used these irons from the waved or checkered slab in order to obtain of the particularly shining and luccicanti woven ones. They were indispensable for the collars and the sleeves. These particular slabs allowed to imprimere one greater pressure on the woven one in order to iron to the perfection the necks of the shirts. They served also for inamidare, because the shape of the not smooth slab was the much more effective in distributing starch on the woven one in uniform way.

IRON FROM HAT:
Often the woven one and rigid of the nails head from man, it has made yes that an appropriate iron was invented. The slab was not straight, but leggermente concave in order to follow the cylinder of the high part of the hat.

IRON FROM BILLIARDS:
The slab is of squared shape, with angles dulls to you in order to arrive end in the angles of the small table from billiards. Servants just not to iron, but to heat the green cloth in order to eliminate eventual “hunchbacks”