List of laundry topics

This is a list of laundry topics. Laundry is the washing of clothing and linens (e.g. sheets and towels).^[1] Laundry processes are often done in a business, room or area in a home or apartment building, reserved for that purpose; this is referred to as a laundry room. The material that is being washed, or has been laundered, is also generally referred to as laundry.

• Biological detergent – laundry detergent that contains enzymes harvested from micro-organisms such as bacteria adapted to live in hot springs.^[2] The description is commonly used in the United Kingdom.
• Bleach
• Fabric softener
• Laundry detergent

• Combo washer dryer
• Dry cleaning
• Posser or washing dolly, a tool for agitating the wet fabric
• Washboard and washing paddle, also known under many other names
• Wash copper, a portable or built-in boiler
• Washing machine
• Wet cleaning, a retronym meaning "not dry cleaning"

• Airing cupboard
• Clothes dryer
• Clothes horse or drying rack or many other names
• Clothes line
• Drying cabinet
• Hills Hoist
• Kitchen maid (pulley airer)
• Mangle (machine)
• Sheila Maid
• Winter Dyke

• Box mangle
• Fluff and Fold^{[broken anchor]}, a service provided by commercial laundrettes
• Ironing
• Tunnel finisher

• Industrial laundry
  • Tunnel washer

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  Industrial laundry sorting
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  The unloading side of a dryer in an industrial laundry which dries the linen
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  A feeder where linen is placed and which takes the linen to the ironer and folder

Some of these relate more to textile manufacturing than laundry, but there is overlap in how wet cloth is processed.

• Color fastness, the degree to which a textile retains its color without fading or bleeding
• Fulling – a step in making woollen cloth - cleaning the fleece to eliminate oils, dirt, and other impurities, and making it thicker.
• Posting, trampling or treading wet clothing
• Shrinkage
• Stain

• Dry Cleaning and Laundry International
• Dry Cleaning Institute of Australia
• Chinese Hand Laundry Alliance
• Laundry and Dry Cleaning International Union
• Laundry Workers Industrial Union
• Magdalene asylum
• Project Laundry List – a New Hampshire group that encourages the outdoor drying of clothes
• Worshipful Company of Launderers – a livery company in the City of London that promotes the profession of the launderers by awarding scholarships to laundry students.

• 5àsec - a French franchise network
• Washio (company) - defunct laundry delivery service
• SudShare - an American app-based laundry cleaning and delivery company

• Dadeumi, the traditional Korean practice of rhythmically beating cloth, associated with the hardships of a woman's life
• Dhobiwallah, or dhobi, the washermen in South Central Asia (India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, etc.), and their caste group, historically associated with washing clothes^[3]
• Fullo, the Latin word for a person washing laundry
• Washerwoman or laundress
• Housekeeping
• Laundry symbols

• Clothes hanger
• Clothes iron
• Clothespin
• Dispensing ball
• Dryer ball
• Hamper
• Laundry ball
• Laundry basket

• Barbier v. Connolly
• Kimball Laundry Co. v. United States
• Muller v. Oregon
• Pearson v. Chung
• Yick Wo v. Hopkins

• Baths and wash houses in Britain, public places that included facilities for washing the body as well as clothes
• Dhobi ghat, any open-air washing-place in southern central Asia
• Mahalaxmi Dhobi Ghat, a well-known open air laundry in Mumbai, India.^[4]
• Laundry room, in a private dwelling
• Lavoir, a public open-air wash-house in a village
• Self-service laundry, also known as a coin wash, laundromat, washeteria, laundrette
• Tvättstuga, a shared laundry room in a hall of residence or block of flats
• Utility room, in a private dwelling that includes laundry functions

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  The Mahalaxmi Dhobi Ghat open air laundry in Mumbai
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  A self-service laundry in Paris

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