Oh Patrice - I am so sorry that you could not get the stains out after all that work!! I hope you took pics of your progress at different steps of your project so you could have something from all of your efforts!!
Rryder - That's the way to do it to flatten those fibers!! I LOL when I read your post but I have read/heard of tailors doing that. I collect vintage pressing irons and one of the tailor irons that I have from the early 1900s weighs 38lbs - it is a very large beast and I suppose the weight of it helped flatten the wool seams of many garments.