Sat Oct 17 · 1pm

Talk: Mangle Boards of Northern Europe

Scandinavian Cultural Center · Scandinavian Cultural Center · West Newton · MA · West Newton · Newton

Jay Raymond presents the research behind Mangle Boards of Northern Europe: A Definitive Guide to the Geographic Origins of Mangle Boards. A mangle board is a carved plank used from the sixteenth to the twentieth century to press wrinkles out of linen; Raymond surveyed more than seven thousand of them in museums across Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Germany and the Netherlands.