[lace] mangle
Just to show you when there has to be rolled (mangle) big sheets, There is big stones on the top box, and on this mashine 3 rollers, and 2 people had to stand in each end to use it. http://www.sorgenfri-blomster.dk/index.php?pageid=426 Dorte www.spaces.msn.com/members/MrsTee skype: mc535xv - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Hi All, I can remember when I was a small child, my Grandma had a mangle, in what is grandly called a utility room nowadays, but back then was the shed, where the copper wash boiler lived, along with all the laundry impedimenta!We were all very impressed when Mum had a new-fangled washing machine, which did things automatically and, instead of us standing by the die of the mangle and turning the handle to get the washing to go through the two rollers and get rid of as much water as possible, this machine had rollers which you switched on, and they worked with no effort at all. The mangle also had a screw mechanism on top, so that you could lessen or increase the pressure depending on how large or delicate the material being mangled was - really high-tech!!! Talk about the wonders of modern technology - but think how antediluvian I felt when we first moved to Suffolk about 29 years ago, and I took the children to a Household Museum. There was 'our' mangle - not in very good condition, but I really did feel ancient, I can tell you! Carol - in Suffolk UK - Original Message - From: "Whitham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2006 6:26 AM Subject: [lace] Mangle > Hello all, > - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Mangle
This thread brings back memories. My grandmother (born 1904) used one of these for all the household linens (sheets, pillowslips, tablecloths etc) We used the wood heated copper to boil the whites in, along with a knob of 'blue' to whiten them. Then using a wooden paddle she eased the linen into the mangle while one of us grandbabies got to turn the handle. The elder children would use wooden tongs to catch the still hot linen before placing in the cane washing basket. then once a load was done we would troupe out to the line and hang them out. Some smaller bits were laid over shrubs as Nana always said that those ones would be whiter that the ones hung on the line. Jenny Brandis Kununurra, Western Australia [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.brandis.com.au Lace Making in the Kimberley Region of Western Australia Index http://www.brandis.com.au/craft/lace.html No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.1.394 / Virus Database: 268.10.1/391 - Release Date: 18/07/2006 - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Mangle
Hello all, Now that I see pictures of the machines, thanks Ann-Marie I remember my aunt in Denmark doing that with her tablecloths. It was a huge machine and there would be two of them, one on either side of the machine. I believe it was done by hand.with some kind of weight, it seems to me that it was a wooden contraption..I was about 12 (35 years ago) when I saw this, so you can imagine the memory is not clear. The tablecloth would be folded in half and mangled, then folded in half again the opposite way, and mangled again..it was very important the creases were done correctly. Now I'm curious if the next generation still use it I wish I could be there to see the demo.. Irene Whitham - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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http://www.electrolux.se/node35.asp?ProdID=7836 Here is a picture of a "mangel", the text is in swedish. I have one and use it for my bedlinen, I have never tried on lace though, I would use my rolling pin for that. http://images.google.se/images?q=mangel&hl=sv&hs=L2P&lr=lang_sv&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:sv-SE:official&sa=N&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&tab=wi Here are some different picture. I love the feel of the bedlinen when it has been mangled. Ann-Marie, Sweden Hälsningar Ann-Marie i Ljusdal www.thebreastcancersite.com http://community.webshots.com/user/annma1 http://community.webshots.com/user/quiltmaid bevw skrev: Just curious, I looked in my Gage dictionary with word origins, and the word 'mangle' for the machine (as for laundry) is from the Dutch 'mangel' and latin 'manganum', a contrivance. or from the Greek (info from AskOxford online), 'manganon' axis, engine. - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] mangle
Just curious, I looked in my Gage dictionary with word origins, and the word 'mangle' for the machine (as for laundry) is from the Dutch 'mangel' and latin 'manganum', a contrivance. or from the Greek (info from AskOxford online), 'manganon' axis, engine. I would like to thank Sally for posting about mangling some time ago - I stored the how-to for future reference, and when the topic came up on another lace group, I decided to give it a try. Works like a darn. or a mangle ;) -- Bev in Sooke BC (on Vancouver Island, west coast of Canada) Cdn. floral bobbins www.woodhavenbobbins.com blogging lace at www.looonglace.blogspot.com - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
