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🧲 A pressing tool 🧵 To shape fabric 🎀 A fabric frill
goffer

goffer

9.9
An iron tool for pressing pleats into fabric, especially lace
  • noun
  • Archaic
translation icon : goffre
  • The lace-maker used a goffer to create delicate ridges in the collar.

Examples

  • Restorers borrowed a museum's antique goffer to replicate Victorian-style pleats.

  • She used a goffer to add texture to the fabric.

  • Old-fashioned garments sometimes required a goffer for finishing touches on the fabric.

  • The goffer is essential for creating beautiful lace.

  • The lace-maker used a goffer to create delicate ridges in the collar.

  • Restorers borrowed a museum's antique goffer to replicate Victorian-style pleats.

  • Old-fashioned garments sometimes required a goffer for finishing touches on the fabric.

Synonyms

gauffering iron
vsgoffer
  • Archaic
9.9

A heated metal tool for pressing pleats and ridges in fabric

is the general tool term without stressing heating
goffering iron
vsgoffer
  • Archaic
9.9

A hot metal rod that presses and shapes fabric ruffles

is the broader tool term used for pleats in lace
gauffer
vsgoffer
  • Archaic
9.9

A heated tool used to press small folds into fabric

is the general tool term used more widely not only in fine textile work

Surface Forms

goffer singular
goffers plural

Etymology

Goffer comes from the French verb gauffrer, from gaufre, which means 'waffle'. Think of a tiny waffle iron for cloth: a goffer is an iron tool that presses pleats and ridges into fabric.