History of domestic objects and housekeeping: list of articles
Washing the laundry
Washboards - their "invention" and history
Great washes and washing-days
Washing bats and beetles
- beating the washing clean
Washing dollies and possers
- for use in a tub
Laundry blue
Clothes horses and airers
Drying outdoors
Lye and chamber lye
- washing with ashes or urine, bucking
Lye and ashes
- process illustrated
French washboards
Washing boards in Italy
Washing and cleaning for a duke in 17th century England
Laundresses
Where to buy laundry blue
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Ironing the laundry
History of ironing
- including linen smoothers, mangle boards, box irons etc.
Early electric irons
Gas irons
Ironing boards
Ironing sticks and clubs in Korea and Japan
Irons for frills & ruffles
Mangles
- box mangles especially
Charcoal iron designs
- birds - and a steam locomotive flat iron
Dalli irons
- and fuel briquettes
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Kitchen, dairy & pottery
Bakers' peels
- for bread ovens
Butter crocks and coolers
Butter-making - churns
End-over-end barrel churns
Game pie dishes in 19th century England
History of pressure cookers
Nutcrackers
Redware and red clay in the USA
Tureens, ducks, hens
Kitchen antiques
- resources
Domestic pottery
- resources
Salt-glazed stoneware
- resources
Beds
Press, cabinet and box beds
- and bed recesses
Breton box beds
- the
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Featherbeds, duvets, eiderdowns
Marseilles or Marcella quilts
Medieval beds
- with glossary
Palliasses, straw mattresses
One-legged bedsteads in log cabins
Bed warmers using hot coals
Bed warmers puzzle
Other topics
Fireplaces
Rushlight dips & nips
Setting up home in 17th century London
Brooms & besoms
Buckets made by coopers
Baby walkers
Earth closets
Living on the move
Victorian cold frames
- cucumber frames
Washing and cleaning for a duke in 17th century England
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