Every time I see a washboard in an antique shop, flea market or thrift shop, I can't resist looking at it to see if it's unique enough to buy for my laundry room and add it to the few that I already ...

LOGAN, Ohio -- Cross under the clothesline and into the streets of Logan's Washboard Music Festival and toes spontaneously start tapping to that "rat-a-tat-tat" reverberating across Main Street. The ...

The Columbus Washboard Company was founded in 1895 in Columbus, Ohio. Although it almost shut down in 1999, the factory still produces thousands of washboards each year. Tucked between the hills of ...

The washboard assemblages of Betye Saar are threatening reminders of how seemingly innocuous domestic tasks can become poignant symbols of suppression. Saar has collected these washing machine ...