Tag: laundry

  • Washing Day

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    Kate Davies Designs
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    I’ve really enjoyed reading your comments about Steamies. So many interesting snapshots of women’s lives – so different, but all connected by the necessary business of laundry! I was very struck by how so many of your comments were written from a child’s perspective: an outsider, while the bustling work of women went on around…

  • steamies

    steamies

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    Kate Davies Designs
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    (Edinburgh women negotiate the gradients of the old town, bringing home their washing from the steamie) As I walk about Edinburgh, I often find myself thinking about residents and visitors of the past, moving about the city. A while ago, such thoughts gave rise to the Jane Gaugain walk I wrote for Twist Collective. These…