Wash on Monday: A History of Your Laundry (ep 7.1)

Her Half of History · May 5, 2022 · 24m

Laundry has been on the household chore list ever since people first learned to spin plant and animal fibers into fabric. This episode traces its history from the days when a rinse in the stream was all you could do, to Romans pounding it with their feet, to Victorian women hauling and boiling 400 pounds of water for it. Until the 20th century when the automatic washer and dryer miraculuously relieved some (but not all) women of what one advice writer called the "most trying department of housekeeping."

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