Beside the museum’s garden and clogmaker’s hut, feel free to watch this essential activity unfold in front of you, thanks to our dedicated volunteers. Indeed, before the invention of modern washing machines, laundry in the villages of old certainly took some elbow grease. It was a time when the laundresses lathered, scrubbed, battered and wringed out clothing, all while being submerged in a flurry of lively conversation
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