the gentrification of air-drying clothes

Reading The Shopkeeper's post about hanging laundry sent me on a trip down memory lane. When I was a kid growing up in South Africa, I would watch my mother wash clothes in the bathtub and then hang them on a line to dry. And when we visited family in India, I'd watch her beat the clothes on a designated laundry rock (a large, flat thing either born there or dragged there) before...hanging them on…