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2. Overhead clothes airer - Wikipedia

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   Modern hanging clothes horse with pulley system. An overhead clothes airer, also known variously as a Sheila Maid ,ceiling clothes airer, laundry airer, pulley airer, laundry rack, or laundry pulley, is a ceiling-mounted mechanism to dry clothes. It is also known as, in the North of England, a creel and in Scotland, a pulley.

3. Clothes dryer - Wikipedia

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   An American style clothes dryer with a rear control panel A European style clothes dryer with a front control panel. A clothes dryer (tumble dryer, drying machine, or simply dryer) is a powered household appliance that is used to remove moisture from a load of clothing, bedding and other textiles, usually after they are washed in the washing machine.

4. Clothes horse - Wikipedia

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   There are many types of clothes horses: large, stationary outdoor ones; smaller, folding portable racks; and wall-mounted drying racks. A clothes horse is similar in usage and function to a clothes line, and used as an alternative to the powered clothes dryer. An electric alternative exists, usually known as a heated clothes airer.

5. Lint (material) - Wikipedia

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   Close-up of dryer lint. Dryer lint is lint generated by the drying of clothes in a clothes dryer; it typically accumulates on a dryer screen. Underwriters Laboratories recommends cleaning the lint filter after every cycle for safety and energy efficiency. [6] Failure to clean the lint filter is the leading cause of home clothes dryer fires. [7]

6. List of types of fur - Wikipedia

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   Chinchilla fur garments on display in Ushuaia. Characterized by their dense, velvety texture, chinchilla fur is one of the most expensive and luxurious of all fur types. Each follicle on a chinchilla's body produces 60 hairs, making the fur the densest of any land-dwelling mammal.

7. Drying cabinet - Wikipedia

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   In both Europe and America, wealthier and commercial properties sometimes had drying cabinets or drying rooms associated with their laundry rooms. The cabinets were of wood or cast iron, with a series of drying racks on wheels which were pulled in or out of the cabinet horizontally. The cabinet was heated by coal, gas or wood.

8. Moisture management - Wikipedia

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   Moisture management or moisture-wicking is a functional property in textiles that enables them to transfer moisture from the skin, by capillary action through the fabric, spreading it over a large external surface area, which helps in drying quickly. [1] [2] The property is one of the most important for thermal comfort of textiles. [3]

9. Kinky hair - Wikipedia

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   Papuan women with kinky hair. Kinky hair is a uniquely human characteristic, as most mammals have straight hair, including the earliest hominids. [11] Robbins (2012) suggests that kinky hair may have initially evolved because of an adaptive need amongst humans' early hominid ancestors for protection against the intense UV radiation of the sun in Africa.