![Laundry Day in Venice -- from the 'Elegant Decay' series - Jim Dawson Photography](http://www.jimdawsonphotography.com/cdn/shop/products/MG_4479-Edit_1250x1000.jpg?v=1616175008)
![If you've traveled through Europe and found the need to wash your clothes you'll find that washers and dryers (often a combo) is small. Midget small. You'd be lucky to wash a couple of pairs of jeans and a shirt or two. For that reason, Venetians hang their clothes outside along clotheslines. The clotheslines often cross over the canals which leads me to wonder how they managed to string the lines. Also, it seems Wednesdays seem to be a favourite day provided its sunny to hang out the laundry.](http://www.jimdawsonphotography.com/cdn/shop/products/washingdaylarge_1250x931.jpg?v=1616174235)
![If you've traveled through Europe and found the need to wash your clothes you'll find that washers and dryers (often a combo) is small. Midget small. You'd be lucky to wash a couple of pairs of jeans and a shirt or two. For that reason, Venetians hang their clothes outside along clotheslines. The clotheslines often cross over the canals which leads me to wonder how they managed to string the lines. Also, it seems Wednesdays seem to be a favourite day provided its sunny to hang out the laundry.](http://www.jimdawsonphotography.com/cdn/shop/products/washingdaysmall_1250x834.jpg?v=1616174229)
Giorno di Bucato / Laundry Day in Venice
Where modernity presses up against the walls of antiquity, everything is more fascinating and romantic—even laundry.
Clotheslines zigzag above the Venetian canals. Sheets cling to them like football banners from the girders at a stadium.
Bricks once faced with white Marmorino plaster or stone from Istria now resemble crumbled graham crackers on the top of a crumble pie.
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