Do you count a drying rack as a washing line?
I would consider a classical washing line to be super inconvenient and inefficient. No idea how I would use that, especially for a full load.
Honestly I cannot remember seing a classical washing ljne around here.
@jonasgraphie in every street I've ever lived on there has been one of these in every back yard.
The only exception was when I lived in Port Melbourne for a job, which is a high density urban area between the port of Melbourne and Melbourne central business district. There we had a rectangular folding structure attached to the side of the building, it folded down only when needed.
https://hillshome.com.au/collections/hills-hoist-clotheslines
Crazy how different things are even for such simple things.
Those rectangular folding things, I know too, and even without space constraints I would highly prefer them, as you can take them away. You would usually find them at people with a larger throughout + garden.
However, I had consider them a subset of drying racks...
And by the way: if you translate the German word for it literally, it would be loundry spider. No idea why it is not laundry spider web.
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