Next time you order from us, don’t forget to add a whisk broom from the Milwaukee Dustless Brush company. These whisks are perfect for the home, shop, or workplace – they can’t be beat for cleaning small messes, or wrangling big messes into a dustpan. We love the navy blue stitching and the convenient hang …
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Archival Clothing Storage
I love coat hooks. For the past several years I’ve been collecting hooks of all types, especially the simple bent wire variety. This is a selection taken from current eBay auctions – just search “antique wire coat hook.” I love looking at all the different ways the same problem was solved. Prices on eBay are …
Archival Housekeeping
Archival Clothing’s bibles are many – the Arnys catalog, the old Hebden Cord catalogs, the Montgomery Ward catalogs from the 1940s. But for all matters domestic, Cheryl Mendelson’s Home Comforts comes, from us and others, Most Highly Recommended. Mrs. Mendelson covers every imaginable topic of domestic interest. There is detailed advice for laundering anything, incredible …
Archival Housekeeping
Man hoovering Add housekeeping to the list of archival chores I’d rather perform in the past. Not only do the tasks look simpler (limited activity, fixed locations), they seem to require a heightened, more thoughtful level of dress and grooming. Of course, I’d advocate for an individualized chore uniform. Aprons or multi-pocketed work jackets add …