List of laundry topics
This is a list of laundry topics. Laundry is the washing of clothing and linens (e.g. sheets and towels).[1] Laundry processes are often done in a business, room or area in a home or apartment building, reserved for that purpose; this is referred to as a laundry room. The material that is being washed, or has been laundered, is also generally referred to as laundry.
Maytag commercial clothes dryers
Laundry topics
Chemicals
Laundry detergent powder
- Biological detergent – laundry detergent that contains enzymes harvested from micro-organisms such as bacteria adapted to live in hot springs.[2] The description is commonly used in the United Kingdom,
- Bleach
- Fabric softener
- Laundry detergent
Washing
A modern dry cleaning machine with touchscreen and SPS control, manufacturer EazyClean, type EC124, photo taken prior to installation
- Combo washer dryer
- Dry cleaning
- Posser or washing dolly, a tool for agitating the wet fabric
- Washboard and washing paddle, also known under many other names
- Wash copper, a portable or built-in boiler
- Washing machine
- Wet cleaning, a retronym meaning "not dry cleaning"
Drying
Modern hanging clothes horse with pulley system
- Airing cupboard
- Clothes dryer
- Clothes horse or drying rack or many other names
- Clothes line
- Drying cabinet
- Hills Hoist
- Kitchen maid (pulley airer)
- Mangle (machine)
- Sheila Maid
- Winter Dyke
Finishing
- Box mangle
- Fluff and Fold, a service provided by commercial laundrettes
- Ironing
- Tunnel finisher
Industrial
Industrial laundry sorting
The unloading side of a dryer in an industrial laundry which dries the linen
A feeder where linen is placed and which takes the linen to the ironer and folder
Concepts
Engraving of Scotswomen singing a waulking song while waulking or fulling cloth, c. 1770.
Some of these relate more to textile manufacturing than laundry, but there is overlap in how wet cloth is processed.
Organizations
- Dry Cleaning and Laundry International
- Dry Cleaning Institute of Australia
- Chinese Hand Laundry Alliance
- French laundries of California
- Laundry and Dry Cleaning International Union
- Laundry Workers Industrial Union
- Magdalene asylum
- Project Laundry List – a New Hampshire group that encourages the outdoor drying of clothes
- Worshipful Company of Launderers – a livery company in the City of London that promotes the profession of the launderers by awarding scholarships to laundry students.
Companies
- 5àsec - a French franchise network
Culture
- Dhobi, a caste group in India and Pakistan, historically associated with washing clothes[3]
- Fullo, the Latin word for a person washing laundry
- Washerwoman or laundress
- Housekeeping
- Laundry symbols
Accessories
A collection of irons
Law
Places
- Baths and wash houses in Britain, public places that include facilities for washing the body as well as clothes
- Dhobi Ghat – a well-known open air laundromat in Mumbai, India.[4] The workers, known as dhobis, wash the clothes from hotels and hospitals.
- Laundry room, in a private dwelling
- Lavoir, a public open-air wash-house in a village
- Self-service laundry, also known as a coin wash, laundromat, washeteria, laundrette
- Tvättstuga, a shared laundry room in a hall o residence or block of flats
- Utility room, in a private dwelling that includes laundry functions
The Dhobi Ghat open air laundromat in Mumbai, India
References
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- "Laundry". The Free Dictionary By Farlex. Retrieved 2012-05-24.
- www.spolem.co.uk: Industrial uses of enzymes Archived 2012-01-03 at the Wayback Machine
- People of India Uttar Pradesh Volume XLII Part One edited by A Hasan & J C Das
- "Mumbai boasts the world's largest open air laundry". The Globe and Mail. November 8, 2010. Retrieved 28 August 2014.
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