https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gF4nKm8umLAVery impressed with her Iron, its got a life of its own, it seems!
So its a piece of clean wood! Any type of wood??
I have a piece of ironwood (yes really!) sat by the wood burner that I refuse to let Imself burn as its so unusual that I could use ... after cleaning it up of course.
Mine (not the one in the pic) measures 3 1/2" wide by 8 1/4" long and 1 1/4" deep and weighs 641 grams ... but would it being ironwood ie. extremely dense stop the absorption of the heat/damp/steam thing??
Come to think of it .... I don't use steam; I sometimes use Spray starch but always with a dry iron.
Why all the questions I hear you ask, considering I don't sew useful things like clothes???
Because sometimes where a lot of seams intersect ... I'm thinking pinwheels, stars etc its really difficult to get them to lie down nicely.