The website for Welsh cultural history
The website for Welsh cultural history
SearchWelcome to Gathering the Jewels. Here you will find over 20,000 images of objects, books, letters, aerial photographs and other items from museums, libraries and record offices in Wales. | Box mangle from Cowbridge, mid-19th centuryThis item comes from: Museum of Welsh Life (Item reference: 30.308). If you would like to see the original item, or require information regarding copyright, please contact the repository/contributor named above.The first mangles were basically a low wooden table on which clothes, wound around rollers, were placed. A big wooden chest weighted with stones, was placed on top of the clothes and propelled slowly, to and fro to smooth and polish the clothes. Gathering the Jewels ref: GTJ31078 |
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