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Modern laundry is gross. Historic laundry is less gross.

00:00 03:46 Introduction
03:47 12:55 Part 1: Clothing Integrity & Laundry
12:56 18:47 Part 2: Effectiveness (or lack there of)
18:48 29:45 Part 3: Environmental Impact of Laundry

@NicoleRudolph 's Video on Laundry:    • Cotton Fabric 101: Supplies for Sewing  

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Christine McGaffey Frederick, Household Engineering; Scientific Management in the Home; A Correspondence Course on the Application of the Principles of Efficiency Engineering and Scientific Management to the Everyday Tasks of Housekeeping, 1920, https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/BFVGIH...

How Laundry Machines Work:    • Scientists Just Figured Out How Washi...  

Consumer Reports, Water Usage in Washing Machines, https://www.consumerreports.org/washi...

Hard Water vs. Soft Water: https://www.waterrightgroup.com/reso...

https://homewater101.com/articles/har...

Shaping Sustainable Fashion: Changing the Way We Make and Use Clothes. United Kingdom: Taylor & Francis, 2012. https://www.google.com/books/edition/...

https://www.persil.com/uk/laundry/lau...

https://www.webmd.com/atozguides/s...

Secondarily published in: Meditsinskaya Gazeta(Medical Gazette)
Translated into English and published in: Report Studies in Space Flight and Physiology (JPRS28183) Date 07 January 1965, Page 5

The complete servant maid: or young woman's best companion. Author: Anne Barker
Date: [1770?] Publisher: printed for J. Cooke, No. 17, PaterNoster Row (London)
https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/CW0104...

Appendix H: Fiber Reactions to Various Agents and Conditions," in Army Fixed Drycleaning Plant (Washington DC: HQ, Dept of the Army, November 1972), 77

"Textiles and Clothing," Experiment Station Record vol 55 (Washington, DC: US Department of Agriculture, JulyDec 1926), 493.

Jane Fales, Dressmaking: A Manual for Schools and Colleges (NY: Scribner, 1917), 153

Albert Matlack, "Materials for a Sustainable Economy" in Introduction to Green Chemistry (Boca Raton, FL: Taylor and Francis, 2010), 399

CAI Yongdong and MA Shunbin, "Progress in the Study of Antibacterial Fibers," Advanced Materials Research, Vols. 821822 (2013), p 104

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