iron shirts
I like ironing shirts, really like! Alone the sight of ironing triggers me in such a sweat, I change the color, I am bad ...
Joking aside: A few "old" and hopefully useful tips for you:
First, somehow, the shirts cuddle on the leash after washing, but either hang them on the leash with clips down the collar after you've knocked them out neatly, or iron them directly after washing. The better the shirt is dried, the more grateful it will be later when ironing.
Shirts from the dryer should also be knocked out before the hot-drying and loosely and one after the other thrown into the dryer. This avoids that the shirts knot together. As long as they are still warm iron on ironing (hang on a hanger). This also offers relief later when ironing.
Iron
Actually, you do not need steam when ironing, if you have followed the tips, but helpful can be a damp, well-wrung kitchen towel or for sensitive fabrics.
cotton
For a steam iron, please take either Britage filtered or distilled water. Lime-containing water clogs the pores of the steam and you experience a lime-spitting, hot water-shooting iron, with the inner life you can then deal only once for hours.
Start at the cuffs, open the buttons and iron the cuffs. The A and O when ironing is the smooth drawing and a certain tension hold. After the cuffs, most of the ghosts divorced: some start with the button placket, the others on the shoulder yoke, which can be pulled up well on the top of the board.
I start with the shoulder yoke, then the button placket and front - back - other front. Then I take the collar before, Caution here you get in older shirts like shoemaker pure, so check beforehand, if the collar on the side, which you wear on the outside does not "schlabbert" - if so, then better the Iron the collar from the other side.
sleeve
I neatly stretch the sleeve of the seam along the board, then reach into the cuff fold with my hand and iron it out first underneath. With proper tautness, iron down the sleeve to the end of the cuff fold, then grasp the cuff and "iron on" the crease. So it is adjusted at the bottom of the cuff and runs up soft.
Sleeve folds are not really necessary for hanging shirts, but they are easier to iron than a round sleeve.
Round sleeves are ironed with "shifted" seam, while the sleeve seam is turned so that it is centered on the outer fabric on the table now, gently iron the upper and lower half, then twist the center seam again into the lower and in the upper third. So even women's blouses are ironed, which should generally have no crease. To quickly turn the seam, hold with the hand width in the closed cuff and turn the seam again and again. Not easy but with noble shirts, this ironing is very ... looks classy.
Sensitive materials
Silk? No problem, if you consider that silk must not be thrown and you hang the shirt soaking wet. Never in the dryer. So the shirt is actually in shape and only needs to be ironed with the appropriate temperature. However, it should be noted that here following games have to be ironed differently:
The placket from the left with padding of the wet kitchen towel and at a slightly higher temperature, cuffs and collar ironing necessarily with cloth otherwise "speckt" the fabric. Also place a cloth on bags.
Iron shoulder yoke from the inside, iron the sleeve rolled as described above. Also cover side seams with a cloth while ironing. Even better tip - maybe just fold the purchase of a silk shirt.
