After seeing this post I did some surfing of the web and watched a video. I just happened to have an old army blanket (picked up at an estate sale thank you to the soldier who used it), it is 100% wool and it is dated on the tag 5-4-1942 was when it was inspected. I have used it to repress blocks that I had unsewn to use a different way. I pressed the seam back flat and you cannot even tell where it was sewn. This is absolutely wonderful I was doing the happy dance and told DH that I just saved a lot of money. He was quite pleased. I would say it is better than toilet paper just glad that I remembered I had that blanket. The video said the wool pressing pad would have a smell and the blanket when ironed on has a smell also. Good luck.