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Laundry beater
From Spanking Art
A laundry beater is a wooden beater (like a paddle) used to beat soaked laundry in order to clean it.
Laundry beaters were once used in many cultures worldwide before the invention of the laundry machine, and are still used in less developed countries where laundry is done in the traditional way by hand, e.g. at a river. The laundry beater is made of wood, with a handle and a flattened, typically oval, rectangular or square, business end. It may have been one of the possible inspirations for the spanking paddle, and occasionally an ordinary laundry beater might have been used in homes for disciplinary purposes.
 Les lavandières (The washerwomen), painting by Jean-François Millet (1814-1875). |
 Laundry beater in the hand of a washerwoman, sculpture by Manon Bertrand (2005). |
 The laundry beater in the Nauheim coat of arms, Germany. |
