Just to show you when there has to be rolled (mangle) big sheets, There is
big stones on the top box, and on this mashine 3 rollers, and 2 people had
to stand in each end to use it.
http://www.sorgenfri-blomster.dk/index.php?pageid=426
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This thread brings back memories.
My grandmother (born 1904) used one of these for all the household linens
(sheets, pillowslips, tablecloths etc) We used the wood heated copper to
boil the whites in, along with a knob of 'blue' to whiten them. Then
using a wooden paddle she eased the linen into
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Subject: [lace] Mangle
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Just curious, I looked in my Gage dictionary with word origins, and
the word 'mangle' for the machine (as for laundry) is from the Dutch
'mangel' and latin 'manganum', a contrivance.
or from the Greek (info from AskOxford online), 'manganon' axis, engine.
I would like to thank Sally for posting
http://www.electrolux.se/node35.asp?ProdID=7836
Here is a picture of a mangel, the text is in swedish. I have one and
use it for my bedlinen, I have never tried on lace though, I would use
my rolling pin for that.
Hello all,
Now that I see pictures of the machines, thanks Ann-Marie I remember my aunt
in Denmark doing that with her tablecloths. It was a huge machine and there
would be two of them, one on either side of the machine. I believe it was
done by hand.with some kind of weight, it seems to me
