Saturday, January 13, 2007

Afghan dryers



To the untrained eye, the following pictures might look like a shoddy art installation. If you take a closer look, you’ll see that these are some of my freshly line-dried clothes. The drying process is actually 7 steps. Line dry to ensure the requisite amount of Kabul dust is embedded, take off line and place near the bukhali, flip once one side seems dry and less stiff, flip again because the first side invariably soaks up the wetness released from side 2, flip again (for the same reason mentioned previously ), turn clothes inside out and flip twice … at this point, your clothes should be warm enough to wear (although strangely still not dry enough).

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