
I thought you might like to see these old clothes pegs. With a company called The Laundry it was inevitable that I would acquire some interesting laundry related things over the years. I haven’t set out to collect these things avidly but chancing upon them, I have just picked them up along the way. Old wooden clothes pegs have such a lovely hand-crafted look about them and these ones would most certainly have been hewn out of British timbers, hard enough to stand the test of time and repeated use.

I discovered some of them in an old peg bag found at a car boot sale. You do sometimes find all different shaped pegs jumbled up together and if you are lucky there might be some special examples in amongst the bog-standard ones. The three big chunky pegs were sold to me as blanket pegs and one of them has a few woodworm holes.




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I never realised there were so many different types of pegs. All of them such beauties as well.
Nina x
Comment by Nina - Tabiboo 07.02.09 @ 2:03 pmlove the pegs!!!
Comment by celine 07.26.10 @ 4:39 pmI love these! They’re all so wonderful. I’ve only seen the kind in the top photo - we used to make little people out of them when I was a kid, though I don’t ever remember actually using them on the laundry line. What delightful little treasures! ![]()
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Makes me thing of the maid who fell victim to the four and twenty blackbirds
Comment by EAT PICTURES 07.02.09 @ 11:25 amWonderful