[lace] Mangles
I remember my mother using a mangle in the yard which was followed by a washing machine with an electric mangle when we could afford it. I also remember the dolly and tub in the yard before the machine. A dolly looked like a 3 legged stool with a long central handle that you pounded up and down in the tub to agitate the washing. I was always a little fearful of the mangles as my mother had lost her left little finger when working as a girl in a laundry when an electric mangle caught her apron and she used her hand to stop it! Those were the days without OSHA or someone to look out for the welfare of workers. We used a copper boiler in the kitchen for the laundry water but I think we had a bath upstairs that used hot water from a tank heated by the fire downstairs. I will have to try "mangling" linen next time I finish a piece. I have just attached a linen collar to a teeshirt for convention but I am not taking it off to mangle it. I would be interested in seeing a demonstration to see the difference it makes. Janice Janice Blair Crystal Lake, 50 miles northwest of Chicago, Illinois, USA http://www.lacemakersofillinois.org/ - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] Mangles
Dear spiders, I think the laundry equipment discussion can now be moved to lace chat. It's very interesting but has ventured rather far from finishing linen lace. Best wishes, Avital Arachne moderator - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] Mangles
My grandparents both had washers with attached mangles. I used to help her feed the laundry through them. They were called "wringers" in the US. Mangles in the US were much larger and for ironing large flat items or other items that were too unwieldy for an ironing board. Few homes had them, more common in institutions. We did have one though and I used to mangle sheets, pillow cases, and other large items. My mother was so adept at it she could mangle iron baby clothes. You had to be very careful due to the amount of heat and the size of the padded rollars (very hot and very big) due to the possibility of getting your hand caught. Cearbhael -Original Message- >From: Brenda Paternoster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Jul 20, 2006 5:02 AM >To: Lace Arachne , KFHS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: [lace] Mangles > >Lots of pictures of mangles and other laundry equipment for those of >you too young to remember! >http://www.townfield.doncaster.sch.uk/pages/trips/cusworth_laundry.htm > >Brenda >http://paternoster.orpheusweb.co.uk/ > >- >To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: >unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to >[EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] Mangles
Brenda Paternoster wrote: Lots of pictures of mangles and other laundry equipment for those of you too young to remember! http://www.townfield.doncaster.sch.uk/pages/trips/cusworth_laundry.htm Brenda http://paternoster.orpheusweb.co.uk/ - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Some houses in the UK built before and after WW11, would have sculleries on to the back of the house,with a copper. This was a large china/earthenware bowl which could be heated from below, but filled and emptied by hand. I was evacuted to a village in Norfolk, my foster mother had a modern bungalow but she did the washing in a v.large shed outside. See these ay http://www.bricksandbrass.co.uk. This should bring back some memories to 'a certain age' group. Sheila in Sawbo', still hot and humid - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] Mangles and mangling
I used to help my grandmother mangle the sheets and towels until the neighbour put caught her arm in her electric one. After that, we weren't allowed to help anymore - but it is a great and fascinating process. Lynn S in Wollongong, Australia - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Mangles
Lots of pictures of mangles and other laundry equipment for those of you too young to remember! http://www.townfield.doncaster.sch.uk/pages/trips/cusworth_laundry.htm Brenda http://paternoster.orpheusweb.co.uk/ - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Mangles and mangling
In days of yore a mangle was standard part of laundry equipment along with the washboard. I can remember my Grandma doing laundry in an outhouse in which the 'mod-cons' was a sink with a cold water tap (faucet). There must also have been some means of heating the water. I don't remember too much about the washing process, but after the initial rinsing I know that a blue-bag was swished around in the final rinse and then the cotton and linen items were dunked in starch solution and then mangled. There's a picture of a similar mangle (the colour pic) at http://telematics.ex.ac.uk/virvic/themes/personal_health/mangleobj.htm I was allowed to turn the handle but not to guide the clothes between the rollers in case I trapped my fingers Early electric washing machines had a paddle in the tub to agitate the clothes and a pair of smaller rollers above to squeeze out most of the sudsy water before rinsing, and could be used again to squeeze out the rinse water before line drying. I've never come across the idea of "mangling" with a rolling pin, but back in the 1960s when I worked in a paper testing laboratory one of the tests for some papers was to see how much water that paper would absorb. We used to clamp a very heavy metal cylinder over a sheet of the (pre-weighed) paper to be tested, pour water into the cylinder (it couldn't escape under the edges because it was clamped down very firmly), leave it for a fixed time (few minutes) pour the water away and remove the cylinder and then place the test paper between two sheets of blotting paper and roll a fixed weight "rolling pin" over and then weigh the test paper. The increase in weight increase indicated how absorbent the paper was. Brenda http://paternoster.orpheusweb.co.uk/ - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
