Graham. wrote:

wrote:

My mum's got one of those contraptions of 4 strips of wood suspended from
a pair of metal hangers, raised and lowered from pulleys screwed into the
ceiling by sash-cord-type rope.

We had one in the house where I grew up 1950s/60s,
but I never knew until now what it was called.
I think we just called ours "the rack".

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