Two women with laundry - by Finnish painter, Albert Edelfelt (1854 - 1905) I LOVE this... it's one of my favourite laundry paintings! #laundryart #art - ThreadSky

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brigitstrawbridge.bsky.social • 52 days ago

Two women with laundry - by Finnish painter, Albert Edelfelt (1854 - 1905)

I LOVE this... it's one of my favourite laundry paintings!

#laundryart #art

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torie138.bsky.social•52 days ago

Luv laundry paintings🤍

pennyjs.bsky.social•52 days ago

Oh, I love this, too! I can almost smell the wonderful fresh scent of a hot iron on linen. And I love the camaraderie of the women. Hard “women’s work” but somehow seems joyous.

brigitstrawbridge.bsky.social•52 days ago

It's the joyousness I love most... and wouldn't you just love to be a fly on their wall?!

jackwallington.com•52 days ago

I saw these paintings by Evelyn Dunbar the other day I really liked - women harvesting sprouts and potatoes

sum1ls.bsky.social•52 days ago

The cold reality in every village in France.

jesika5555.bsky.social•52 days ago

Mum would have used irons like that before we got "the electric" how did they heat them? Probably in the always on coal fired oven in winter but how in summer? I really can't remember.

sum1ls.bsky.social•51 days ago

There was usually a fire in the main room with a iron trivet on which stood the kettle. You could swap the kettle for the iron when needed

jesika5555.bsky.social•51 days ago

I remember that too. everything seemed to work - HARD work. not much of anything but always enough. when we got "the electric" mum had to attach the iron to the light bulb socket.

sum1ls.bsky.social•51 days ago

And do you remember the clippy mat made from old coats and scraps of fabric? We got a ‘contemporary’ rug when the coronation happened. No TV though.

jesika5555.bsky.social•51 days ago

Half a wooden clothes peg smoothed down as a "brodler???" so you could make the hole to push the scraps through the canvas.

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