The first and the most important condition of correct and successful ironing is organizing your work place
How to iron your clothes well
What to do with the burnt spots

• The best way to do ironing is to do it on specially well-found and equipped VILAND ironing boards. Due to their high steadiness and functionality they let you save your time and considerably improve the quality of ironing.
• The place for ironing must be well alight so that you could notice and eliminate any undesirable folds in time and avoid burning tissue at the same time. The light should fall from the left or front, and the socket must be on your right (for left-handed people - vice versa).
• The ironing board should be covered with soft tissue. And the thinner the material you iron is the thicker the covering tissue should be. 
• It’s good to grade all clothes expecting ironing according to types of material they are made of. So you should start ironing silk or nylon with the slightly heated iron, and continue with cotton and linen gradually increasing its temperature. Clothes usually have attached labels with signs showing an iron with the different number of dots indicating the level of iron heating. There are similar dots on the iron too. It is a prompt for you: the more dots you see the higher the heating temperature is.

• Only totally clean clothes should be ironed because ironing will reveal even the slightest stains that were invisible before.
• Sew up all holes before ironing: they normally become bigger while ironing.
• It is difficult to iron parched clothes, so spray it with a special brush or sprayer. At the same time you should not keep wet clothes longer than 12 hours before ironing, otherwise damp spots may occur which are extremely hard to remove.
• You should do ironing with slow movements pressing the iron to the tissue hard.
• First of all you should iron small parts – sleeves, collars, hand-cuffs, ruffles, pockets, embroidery and lace trimming.
• You should iron from the right to the left and from the wide side to the narrow one. You should iron in the direction away from yourself and not towards yourself (otherwise you may get burned), along the length and not the width of the garment (along the longitudinal thread in order to avoid stretching of the garment).
• Clothes should be ironed until complete dryness, otherwise they may get creased during packing and storing.
• Woolen clothes may be ironed both on the inner and on the outer side, but in the latter case it is necessary to iron through a wet cloth.
• It is difficult to iron tussore silk. You should iron it only when it is completely dry, you should not spray it as drops of water leave stains on this fabric.
• Garments made of white pure silk should only be ironed on the inner side at a middle temperature. Silk should only be slightly wet because if it is too wet it will get stiff.
• Linen and cotton should be ironed when they are wet, with a hot iron, on the outer side, to give the fabric its initial glitter.
• Lace should be starched first (3 table-spoons for 5 l of water), then ironed with the front side of a middle-heated iron trying not to crumple it. Do not forget that synthetic lace should not be ironed with a hot iron.
• Velvet and velours should be ironed in a hanging position. Spray the fabric with water on the inner side and slightly iron it on the inner side too until the hot steam smoothes out crumpled fibers.
• Embroideries on clothes should be ironed on the inner side on a soft tissue with a hot iron.
• Flounces should be ironed along the edge first and then all their surface is ironed.
• Oblique cutting should be ironed along the lengthwise thread of the fabric in order to avoid garment deformation.
• Blouses and men’s shirts should be ironed the following way: first the right sleeve, then the collar, the upper part of back and the left sleeve, then the back, the side seams and finally the front. Light blouses should be ironed on the outer side, dark ones – on the inner side.
• Dark woolen dresses should be ironed on the inner side, pockets and accordion pleats - on the outer side, but through a wet tissue. You should iron the collar first, then ruffles, pleats, sleeves and side seams on the inner side, after that you should iron the dress with wide movements along the length. Put the ironed dress on a hanger and then only put it in a wardrobe when it gets cool, otherwise it may become crumpled.
• Before ironing trousers you should run over glossy zones with a tissue soaked in water and vinegar. You should iron the seams on the inner side first, then turn the trousers back out and iron them through a wet tissue.
• If you iron wet white clothes with a hot iron, yellow stripes may occur on them.
• All clothes that require ironing in a wet condition must be well dried while ironing, otherwise they will get crumpled during packing and storing.
• If some glossy stripes appeared while ironing, you should slightly wet them with water wiping them with a tampon and then iron through a tissue.
• You should only put ironed clothes in a wardrobe when they get completely cool as they still remain a little wet for a while after ironing at a high temperature.
• Before and after ironing it is recommended to apply special iron cleaning means produced by Wenko on the surface of the iron. After ironing the iron should be kept in an upright position.
• Starting to iron it is recommended to check if there are any stains on the iron surface, of if the iron is not too hot in order not to stain or burn the garment. It is enough to run through a dry tissue with the iron to do it.

• You should soak burned spots in a 2% solution of hydrogen dioxide and leave a garment in the bright light. (You can also add a few drops of liquid ammonia to the solution). In a few minutes you should rinse the garment in cold water.
• You should wet burned spots with cold water, sprinkle them with salt and leave the garment in the sun. Some time later remove the salt and rinse in cold water.
• You can wipe the burned spots with a slit onion and then wash the stain with a detergent.
• Burned spots on silk or wool should be treated with a mixture of soda with a little water. When water evaporates wipe the soda off with a brush and rinse the garment in cold water. Be careful – coloured fabrics may change their colour. As a rule, it can be restored if you soak the garment in a solution of water and vinegar.  
• Substantially burned spots with the deep fabric destruction can not be removed or eliminated.