Fine
Lines A Celebration of Clothesline Culture Mrs. Clothesline Fine Lines is a fun-filled book about a much overlooked aspect of North American culture: clotheslines. If you have ever driven through communities and noticed all the lovely laundry on the backyard lines and wondered about the colourful art of hanging up clothes, you are about to find out the stories behind those fine lines. While other books pin their success on airing dirty laundry, this volume is a refreshing change. It's a book about clean laundry hanging in a gentle summer breeze...as well as winter laundry frozen stiff as boards on the line in the backyard. Mrs. Clothesline examines in every detail the different kinds of lines, the various hanging methods and the personality profiles of those who participate in the age-old daily ceremony. Once you've read this engaging book, you'll never look at a drying line of wash the same way again. Cindy Etter-Turnbull writes of the unsurpassed magic of the best drying days, dos and don'ts for beginners and veterans, clothesline props, clothesline disasters and other related subject matter. Fine Lines covers it all. She includes true life accounts of clothesline tragedies and triumphs from people across the country. Fine Lines is the book the will revolutionize the way you look at laundry. It is intended for amateurs as well as professionals, men as well as women. This book will put to rest any questions you may have about the fine art of hanging out the wash. Probably
nobody knows more about clotheslines than Cindy Etter-Turnbull.
Cindy, and her basket of clothes, has spent many fun-filled evenings
in homes and community halls throughout Nova Scotia collecting stories
and anecdotes about clotheslines. |
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She
has been featured by Stuart McLean on CBC Radio's Vinyl
Café, and has appeared on Wayne Rostad's On
The Road Again. Born in Windsor, Nova Scotia, Cindy and
her husband proudly possess two actively used clotheslines. Cindy
spends her spare time training the family dog, gardening and trying
to out-fish her husband. Her love of tradition, beauty, orderliness,
and humour has led to her fascination with "fine lines"
and establishing the world's preeminent clothesline website, mrsclothesline.com.
