Modern-day laundry doers have it pretty easy: Soiled clothes, towels and sheets go into the washing machine and come out clean, job done. But knowing how to launder a garment by hand is more useful ...

Washing your clothes by hand sounds like a tedious task — something that should’ve been eradicated from our daily lives when the washing machine was invented. If you don’t have a washer and dryer, ...

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Hand-washing is for more than just delicate fabrics — it's a gentle alternative to machine-washing and a great way to clean a couple of things when you don't have a full load to run. Not sure how to ...

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It's time for dingy and greying white clothes to be a thing of the past.

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Deirdre McKay receives funding from the British Academy, the Leverhulme Trust, and UKRI via the Arts and Humanities Research Council and Global Challenges Research Fund. Kelly Sheridan receives ...